摘要：Intercultural education seeks to create a forum for integrating Western scientific knowledge and indigenousknowledge to address local and global challenges such as biocultural diversity conservation, natural resource management, andsocial justice for indigenous peoples. Intercultural education is based on learning together with, rather than learning about orfrom, indigenous communities. In the best examples, problem-based learning dissolves the dichotomy between indigenous andnonindigenous, resulting in full partnerships in which participants share expertise to meet mutual needs. With reference toliterature and two illustrative examples of intercultural education initiatives in Mexico and Tanzania, we present an originalconceptual framework for assessing indigenous participation in intercultural education. This incorporates a new ladder ofparticipation depth (in relation to both curriculum content and decision making) alongside separate considerations of breadth,i.e., stakeholder diversity, and scope, i.e., the number of key project stages in which certain stakeholder groups are participating.The framework can be used to compare intercultural education initiatives in differing contexts and might be adaptable to otherintercultural work
