Interculturality As An Instrument Of Internationalization Of Education In The Community Of Portuguese Language Countries

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze interculturality as an instrument of educational internationalization at the intersection between the normative agendas of UNESCO and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP). Therefore, from a qualitative approach, a bibliographic and documentary research was developed, in which the corpus of analysis corresponded to the two strategic plans for cooperation in education instituted by the CPLP and the World Declaration on Education for All of the Organization of the United Nations Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) – Incheon ( UNESCO, 2016 ). From the research carried out, it can be confirmed that, if on the one hand the Incheon Declaration advocates the relevance of interculturality as a link in international cooperation in the area of ​​education, on the other hand, it defends that the process results from vertical cooperation. in a perspective of influence of the hegemonic countries, especially those of the northern hemisphere. In this direction, the CPLP seeks to distance itself from this perspective by establishing the promotion of the Portuguese language as an instrument of interculturality and, thus, constituting itself as an educational policy perspective in the face of the hegemonic one of international cooperation between Portuguese-speaking countries.