ABSTRACT
Gabriel Cruz Ignacio recently began working at Universidad Pedagogica Nacional (UPN), Unidad Oaxaca, in the Bachelor of Education degree, Plan 1994, and in the Bachelor of Preschool and Primary Education for Indigenous Contexts, Plan 1990. Gabriel Cruz Ignacio's intention in this space of self-reflexivity is to tell about the vicissitudes of an ordinary contemporary person, an elementary school teacher, and student-researcher of Indigenous origin, who has recently become interested in the higher education offered to 'ethnolinguistic' young people. Indigenous education had taken on three forms, reflecting its yet incipient development: bilingual education, bilingual-bicultural education, and intercultural bilingual education. The implementation of a multifaceted sector of Indigenous higher education will open new perspectives and challenges for teacher preparation and schooling in general and will increase understanding of the social and cultural composition of Latin American universities. Gabriel Cruz Ignacio's research uses the focus that authors such as Hector Muoz term 'sociolinguistic reflexivity' in autobiographical narratives.
