Girls don’t Play Palin!!: The Gender Issue Surrounding the Implementation of Palin in Intercultural Kindergartens

Abstract

This article examines the participation of girls in the traditional Mapuche sport of Palin, a case study within intercultural education in the Metropolitan Region. This practice challenges traditional gender roles within Mapuche culture, highlighting the need for equitable access to educational experiences for both boys and girls. Through this emblematic case, we explore the tensions between cultural heritage and gender equality in intercultural education. Approaching their cosmovision will provide us with basic elements within the Mapuche culture to solve internally the exclusion of women as a result of the patriarchal connection. We observe the need to search for women in history as a strategy to face a barrier in the dialogue such as “tradition” in the exposed case. From a qualitative and committed activist research we have been actors and witnessed and analyzed the process of an intervention experience approached in educational context in this case, and from the failure in the first instance, we have proposed some guidelines when generating interventions from interculturality and a Mapuche gender perspective.