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Practical Learning and Epistemological Border Crossings: Drawing on Indigenous Knowledge in Terms of Educational Practices
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Veintie, Tuija – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2013
This article examines the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge into an intercultural bilingual teacher education program in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The article focuses on student teachers' and teacher educators' views on the ways in which Indigenous knowledge can guide educational practices. An ethnographic study was conducted in one teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Intercultural Programs, Bilingual Education
The Education of Indigenous Citizens in Latin America
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Cortina, Regina, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2014
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Educational Practices, Multicultural Education
Coloniality and Cognitive Justice: Reinterpreting Formal Education for the Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador
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Veintie, Truija – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2013
This article examines intercultural bilingual education (IBE) as a reterritorialization of a globalized Western model of formal education into the Ecuadorian indigenous context. This reterritorialization is explored through an IBE teacher education institute. First, the article discusses the instructional practices that attempt to break with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, Bilingual Education, American Indians