Intercultural education and literacy : an ethnographic study of indigenous knowledge and learning in the Peruvian Amazon
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Intercultural education and literacy : an ethnographic study of indigenous knowledge and learning in the Peruvian Amazon
（Studies in written language and literacy, v. 7）
J. Benjamins, c1999
- : US
- : Eur.
Available at 8 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-221) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Indigenous peoples around the world are calling for control over their education in order to reaffirm their identities and defend their rights. In Latin America the indigenous peoples, national governments and international organisations have identified intercultural education as a means of contributing to this process. The book investigates education for and by indigenous peoples and examines the relationship between theoretical and methodological developments and formal practice. An ethnographic study of the Arakmbut people of the Peruvian Amazon, provides a detailed example of the social, cultural and educational change indigenous peoples are experiencing, an insight into Arakmbut oral learning and teaching practices as well as a review of their conceptualisations of knowledge, pedagogy and evaluation. The models of intercultural education being promoted by Latin American governments are, nevertheless, biliterate and school-based. The book analyses indigenous and non-indigenous models based on different conceptualisations of culture and curriculum in the context of the Arakmbut search for an education which respects their dynamic oral cultural traditions and identity, provides them with a qualitatively relevant education about the wider society and addresses the intercultural lives they lead.
Table of Contents
- 1. List of Maps
- 2. List of Drawings by Thomas Arique
- 3. Chapter 1: Introduction
- 4. Chapter 2: Education for and by indigenous peoples
- 5. Chapter 3: The emergence of intercultural education in Peru
- 6. Chapter 4: The primary school in san Jose
- 7. Chapter 5: An Arakmbut perspective on schooling
- 8. Chapter 6: Arakmbut knowledge
- 9. Chapter 7: Arakmbut informal learning
- 10. Chapter 8: Bilingual education for language-maintenance
- 11. Chapter 9: Interculrural schooling
- 12. Chapter 10: Indigenous peoples' intercultural education
- 13. Glossary
- 14. List of Acronyms
- 15. References
- 16. Index
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