Intercultural education and literacy - an ethnographic study of Arakmbut education studies in written language and literacy

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Aikman, Sheila (1999) Intercultural education and literacy - an ethnographic study of Arakmbut education studies in written language and literacy. Studies in Written Language and Literacy series . John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam. ISBN 978 90 272 1800 1

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Book
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Literacy and Development Group
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development
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Depositing User: Abigail Dalgleish
Date Deposited: 10 Jun 2011 14:55
Last Modified: 24 Sep 2024 08:34
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/32284
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