The Education of Indigenous Citizens in Latin America

Edited by Regina Cortina

Publication date:

06 January 2014

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781783090952

This groundbreaking volume describes unprecedented changes in education across Latin America, resulting from the endorsement of Indigenous peoples' rights through the development of intercultural bilingual education. The chapters evaluate the ways in which cultural and language differences are being used to create national policies that affirm the presence of Indigenous peoples and their cultures within Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Guatemala. Describing the collaboration between grassroots movements and transnational networks, the authors analyze how social change is taking place at the local and regional levels, and they present case studies that illuminate the expansion of intercultural bilingual education. This book is both a call to action for researchers, teachers, policy-makers and Indigenous leaders, and a primer for practitioners seeking to provide better learning opportunities for a diverse student body.

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Regina Cortina: Introduction
1. Luis Enrique López: Indigenous Intercultural Bilingual Education in Latin America: Widening Gaps between Policy and Practice
2. Regina Cortina: Partnerships to Promote the Education of Indigenous Citizens
3. Bret Gustafson: Intercultural Bilingual Education in the Andes: Political Change, New Challenges, and Future Directions
4. Carmen Martínez Novo: The Tension between Western and Indigenous Knowledges in Intercultural Bilingual Education in Ecuador
5. Sylvia Schmelkes: Indigenous Students as Graduates of Higher Education Institutions in Mexico
6. María José Aragón: Beyond Cultural Recognition: Training Teachers for Intercultural Bilingual Education in Guatemala
7. Luz Jiménez Quispe: Indigenous Leaders and the Challenges of Decolonization in Bolivia
8. Laura A. Valdiviezo: Political Discourse and School Practice in Multilingual Peru

Few, if any, English-language surveys of indigenous and intercultural education have ever offered scholars and students the historical and national depth that is evident in this wonderful collection, while also presenting such a wide vista on the international and local political actors in this field. Regina Cortina has assembled an invaluable resource not only for those concerned with Latin America, but for anyone wishing to understand how national-level and global movements are being reshaped, and frequently contested, by the actualized demands of indigenous leaders and movements.