this combination represents an opportunity for both indigenous and nonindigenous students to become familiar with indigenous traditions and at the same time encourages a mutual learning process among teachers although incipient there is also an effort to increase the level of awareness about interculturalism among the general population while the peib programme exists since it was not until that the chilean government explicitly established the principle of interculturalism and protection of indigenous language and culture through the general education law and incorporated indigenous language into the curriculum