Inclusion and Exclusion in Media Education in Colombia: Life Stories

The present text is part of an investigation development that takes place between 2015 and 2016, where there’s an interest in knowing what the diversity-homogenizations, inclusions-exclusions in Colombian education are. Colombia is a country which is based on ethnic, environmental, and cultural diversity, it has just begun to become aware of this condition, hence, social exclusion is one of the greatest difficulties where legal deployments and other alternative proposals are insufficient to address diversity and inclusion. Education as the power it is, cannot be isolated from this problematic, because the greater homogenization is, the more hiding of diversity and plurality; and the greater educational exclusion is, the higher the risks of segregation are, and therefore, of real and symbolic violence. Having said that, the greatest challenge the country faces in the educational field, is to contribute to an authentic inclusion and diversity exhibition; not only as a legal precept or conceptual display, but as a citizen practice manifestation in an armed post-settlement era. Some conclusions lead us to ask ourselves: What are the logics of inclusions and diversities in Colombia? These logics are due to the internal wars aftermath, to the international demands; due to a human condition rebirth that has only begun to be understood in Colombian society. What is salvageable, is that these human life fields are already addressed through a certain general awareness, however, the most difficult thing is that they have neither the financial resources, nor enough infrastructure to be more inclusive in a diversities wealth. Furthermore, education is the one that best understands this great spectrum of diversities and inclusions, nevertheless, there are not enough organizational and cognitive elements to confront neither the corruption chains, nor the internal violence winds, those that cannot be entirely controlled. In any case, it is necessary to move from a diversity idea to a diversity with ideas, and from an inclusion idea, to an inclusion with ideas.