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Diego Román; Daniel Masaquiza; Katherine Ward; Luis Gonzalez-Quizhpe – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Latin American countries have experienced demographic and linguistic changes since Educación Intercultural Bilingüe (EIB) was first developed. Yet, ministries of education continue to impose generic models that do not reflect the realities of migrant Indigenous groups, who experience linguistic and ethnic minoritisation processes. Based on our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, American Indians, Bilingual Education
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Nicholas Limerick – Applied Linguistics, 2024
What opportunities and challenges occur in reclaiming Indigenous languages within state institutions? This article considers the case of intercultural bilingual education in Ecuador. The school system is remarkable as a national-level initiative run by and for Indigenous "pueblos" and nationalities. Based primarily on two years of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Language Usage
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Andino-Enri´quez, Jose E.; Andino-Enri´quez, Manuel A.; Hidalgo-Ba´ez, Francis E.; Chala´n-Guala´n, Sisa P.; Gualapuro-Gualapuro, Santiago D.; Belli, Simone; Chicaiza-Lema, Michelle B. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Minorities' languages face transformation processes and struggle against many social and linguistic limitations. Education systems in these languages are not optimal to promote the teaching of ancestral knowledge and scientific research. This is the case of Kichwa, an Ecuadorian native language that more than half-million people speak with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Science Instruction, Language Usage
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Limerick, Nicholas; Hornberger, Nancy H. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
One of the central paradoxes of textbook authorship in Indigenous languages is that some of those for whom the textbooks are intended find it challenging to read them. Here, through examining cases of Quechua across the Andes in Peru and in Ecuador, we consider the role of orthography in this paradox. Textbook authors must decide on an alphabet…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Multicultural Education, American Indian Languages, Language Variation
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Veintie, Tuija; Hohenthal, Johanna; Betancourt Machoa, Katy; Sirén, Anders – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2022
Transition to distant education modality due to COVID-19 pandemic raised concerns about widening educational inequalities worldwide. This article examines Amazonian Indigenous youths' access to upper secondary schooling in Ecuador and the resilience of the Intercultural Bilingual Education system in the face of global health emergency with other…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Limerick, Nicholas – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
Indigenous education increasingly seeks to reclaim the institutions of state assimilation as spaces for the dissemination and support of localized forms of knowledge and language use and the valorization of alternative citizenship identities. In this study, I compare two schools in Ecuador to show how divergent ways of teaching Kichwa promote or…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Citizenship Education, Language Planning, American Indian Languages