The Importance of Ethnic-Racial Relationships in the Educational Inclusion Process

The work seeks to contribute to the understanding of the importance of ethnic-racial relations for an adequate process of educative social inclusion, as well as the challenges and potential of teaching through the analysis of the experience of social inclusion in higher education of foreign students in Brazilian universities and to contrast with the reality of indigenous peoples in Latin America, considering different perspectives. However, these students face many obstacles such as culture shock, ignorance of methodology, language, racism, lack of acceptance in classes, discrimination, among others, which could create inconsistencies during their stay at UFPI. Educating together with students from different cultures implies working in ethnic-racial relations with the aim of achieving a common cultural space, in which students do not lose their cultural identity, otherwise they can manage to enrich it and open their minds to the different and the changes they will experience within the teaching-learning process. The general objective has been to analyze the process of social inclusion of foreign students as well as to contrast with the reality of indigenous people in Latin America who suffer marginalization and discrimination within society. This research used bibliographic files.