La diversidad cultural en los procesos de formación académica de enfermería requiere el manejo de la ética pedagógica, la corresponsabilidad y un pensamiento mediador

in the continuous introspection of the typical duty of the pedagogy, it was found the necessity of strengthen the self-esteem of the popular and ethnical knowledge of the nursing students from the "universidad popular del césar" as a source of knowledge and intercultural dialogue, since the perspective of "a cultural sensible care(1)" or the one of expanding the components of the "cultural competence" by leininger to the research of care(2), as much as the interest of the instruction for including transversal elements in the curriculum, an intercultural perspective; as a result we worked with the qualitative tradition, an ethnographic procedural focused method; configuring 6 participants with the technique of the focal group, interviews in depth about their daily and academic life were recorded: four categories emerged: diversity, corresponsability, mediator thought and pedagogical ethic as a basis of the strategies for teaching the culturally competent care.