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Education, in its simplest form, is a process of knowledge transmission: a dynamic that encompasses our nature as Homo sapiens, our belonging to a social community, and our cultural identity. How do these different levels intertwine and interact? This essay aims to answer these crucial questions by proposing a conceptual framework for rethinking key notions (culture, academic knowledge, identity, ethnicity, indigeneity, and multiculturalism) while critically examining the theories and schools of thought through which education is investigated as a social phenomenon. The chosen transdisciplinary approach fosters a multifaceted dialogue between socio-anthropological disciplines, educational sciences, and political science, with the ambition of relativizing and deconstructing the numerous stereotypes and prejudices associated with otherness in education and the supposed superiority or inferiority of certain educational systems.
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Maurizio ALÌ is a senior lecturer at the National Institute for Teaching and Education of the Academy of Martinique (University of the Antilles). He has worked with several indigenous communities: the Kuna (Tule) in Colombia, the Wayana-Apalai in French Guiana, and the Enata in French Polynesia. His research also involved infiltrating a neo-shamanic sect in Bogota, studying the history of a missionary congregation in the Amazonian foothills, observing the use of pre-Columbian technologies in the Andean countries, and analysing media coverage of ethnic issues in South America. Before being recruited by the Université des Antilles, he taught at the Universidad Santo Tomás and the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (Bogotá, Colombia). He is currently a member of the Research Unit on Contexts, Research and Resources in Education and Training (CRREF, University of the Antilles) and an associate member of the Traditional and Contemporary Societies in Oceania Research Unit (EASTCO, University of French Polynesia) and the Interuniversity Centre for Indigenous Studies and Research (CIERA, University of Montreal). He has published several books with Presses Universitaires des Antilles: Mathématiques et contextes: regards croisés (with Manuel Garçon, Mickaëlle Ramassamy, and Cyrille Guieu, 2026), Cultures, savoirs et identités (2023), Autochtonie et question éducative dans les Outre-mer (2023), and L’éducation aux marges en temps de pandémie (with Pierre-Olivier Weiss, 2022).