Abstract

The purpose of this article is to point out the distribution of foreign, Chilean and nationalized students who are being schooled in Chilean classrooms, in order to analyze the importance of incorporating migrant cultural heritage as decolonizing content for intercultural education. The development of this article is configured from a quantitative approach, with numerical data that describe the students’ characteristic, the data presented through figures that allow the enrollment information to be better organized; in addition, the graphic description is complemented with a hermeneutical approach, where studies on migration, cultural heritage and intercultural education are analyzed in the current socio-educational context. Resulting in that the multinational student body that is part of the school system must be made visible on a political level, both social and educational, in this context the school curriculum should refresh and promote new knowledge through the knowledge funds that are shared by children, teens and their families as migrant cultural heritage, with the purpose of valuing and generating new intercultural educational spaces, reflecting with the actors of the educational context, so that, gradually advance to the epistemologies of good living