Abstract

This paper discusses the Action-Research Project “Cineduka”, which was carried out by a group of teachers of Visual Arts and History who teach at 7th grade in public schools in the Region of O’Higgins, Chile. To this end we held work meetings, training sessions and in-class teaching support, whose main pedagogical resources included the visualization of films and the audiovisual creation by students. The goal was to develop intercultural competences such as dialoguing and intercultural reflection in two courses of the Chilean curriculum, thus promoting new learnings about diversity at school and society. The main results reveal that both students and teachers praise the intercultural approach and include it in their teaching practices, considering this topic as close and necessary. In this line, film visualization and audiovisual creation allowed for reflective thinking, dialogue and emotion activation in students. We conclude that the methodology implemented by “Cineduka” realizes an innovative pedagogical proposal that may contribute to developing intercultural competences in teachers and students, which tackles the need for flexible methodologies and teaching processes in the Chilean schooling system.