Abstract

Even before the construction of the Chilean State, elites have chosen different strategies for interpellate to indigenous peoples, one of which is to focus on education. Based on Intercultural Bilingual Education Program (IBEP) implemented as a new strategy of interpellation, from the state to the indigenous people, this research focuses on the historic objectives that have been posed to school, specifically concerned with the Mapuche people. This paper provides a reflection, along with the construction of the category of state school Ethnopolitics, which contributes to enhance the complexity of the current discussion on intercultural education.