Educacion Intercultural En Chile

Author : Héctor Torres Cuevas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book La educacion intercultural bilingüe en Chile written by Héctor Torres Cuevas and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paradigm of the so-called «intercultural bilingual education» (IBE) is an educational approach that has been spread to several Latin American countries, such as Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador and Peru. Historically associated with the indigenist approaches of linguistic assimilation, in which it was considered as a first step towards unilingual teaching in the national language, the IBE is now being presented, at least in the official speeches, as a tool for the acknowledgment and promotion of the native languages and cultures. This thesis offers documentary evidence and analysis of the specific dynamics of an IBE program, as applied in the mapuche communities of the Araucanía region of Chile. In this research, we describe the daily experience created by the participation in a program of this kind. This implies that we have been interested in the actors who are in charge of dispensing this program. We also consider the experience of actors who are more or less directly the receivers of these programs. Due to the ethical complexities of working with minors, students have not been included as part of the present research. In short, the point is to have an understanding of how the IBE is locally delivered and, especially, to see how this practice intervenes in the relationship between Mapuche people and the Chilean State, which now considers itself as multicultural. The thesis has been organized in three parts; in the first part, we cover the theoretical, contextual and methodological groundwork of the research, which we have located within the anthropology of education, especially as it pertains to IBE in Indigenous contexts. In the second part, we describe and discuss the daily experience of the IBE in schools of the Araucanía region, using ethnographic documentary evidence from two schools with predominantly Mapuche students. In the third and final part, which we call «the IBE Regional Coordination experience: the actions of the multicultural State», we analyze the processes of implementing IBE by looking at the articulations between the Chilean Ministry of Education and lower administrative levels. Keywords: intercultural bilingual education, multiculturalism, everyday experience, school, La Araucanía.