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Indigenous Education (indigenous + education)

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Humanities and Social Sciences100%

Selected Abstracts

Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Margaret Connell Szasz

HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2009
K. TSIANINA LOMAWAIMA
First page of article [source]

Introduction to the Special Issue: Rethinking Indigenous Education from a Latin American Perspective

ANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 2 2009
Elsie Rockwell
First page of article [source]

"This Great Emptiness We Are Feeling": Toward a Decolonization of Schooling in Simunurwa, Colombia

ANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2009
Luz A. MurilloArticle first published online: 14 DEC 200
This article examines the decolonization of schooling in an Arhuaco community in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region of Colombia. Interweaving ethnographic description with accounts of key events that took place between 1915 and 2006, I trace the community's struggle to develop an Indigenous school capable of appropriating Western forms of knowledge while retaining Indigenous practices and beliefs. I describe how Indigenous educators incorporate local forms of knowledge into schooling, and how these are presented and understood relative to the structures and discourses of the colonized school. Using the concepts of "translocality" and "transculturation," I frame this discussion of the struggle for educational autonomy within broader efforts to decolonize knowledge and epistemologies inherited from European traditions and the Colombian state. I argue that educators have transformed the school from a colonizing space to one in which Indigenous people contest and negotiate, via practices of cultural and linguistic revitalization, the state violence that threatens to surround them.,[Arhuaco, Colombia, decolonization, Indigenous education, local knowledge, transculturation, translocality] [source]

Hybrid Literacies: The Case of a Quechua Community in the Andes

ANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 2 2009
Marķa Teresa De La Piedra
Drawing on data from an ethnographic study in a Quechua rural community in the Peruvian Andes, this article examines hybrid literacy practices among bilingual rural speakers in the context of the household and the community. I examine the coexistence of two types of textual practices that operate side by side, at times integrated in the same activity. Hybrid literacies in this Andean community challenge narrow views of literacy, because they include diverse media of communication.,[Peru, Quechua language, Indigenous education, literacy, communities] [source]

Responsibility and Reciprocity: Social Organization of Mazahua Learning Practices

ANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 2 2009
Ruth Paradise
This article describes Mazahua children's participation in learning interactions that take place when they collaborate with more knowledgeable others in everyday activities in family and community settings. During these interactions they coordinate their actions with those of other participants, switching between the roles of "knowledgeable performer" and "observing helper." It is argued that experience with this way of interacting implies readiness to take on responsibility for carrying out important family and community activities, and an understanding of and capacity for reciprocity. Observations in a sixth-grade classroom with a Mazahua teacher and children show that children continued to interact in ways that allowed for collaborative task-oriented organization of classroom learning activities.,[Indigenous education, family and community learning, interactional practices, Mazahua learning] [source]