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The Role of Translanguaging in Establishing School Belonging for Emergent Multilinguals
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DeNicolo, Christina P. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2019
Bilingual education can promote a sense of school belonging for students through a shared valuing of students' home languages and cultures. This article explores how bilingual education contributes to sense of belonging for students who have more than one home language and are becoming trilingual in school. This qualitative study examines how a…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Student School Relationship, Multilingualism, Native Language
Guatemalan Ixil Community Teacher Perspectives of Language Revitalization and Mother Tongue-Based Intercultural Bilingual Education
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Dalton, Kelly; Hinshaw, Sarah; Knipe, John – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2019
Recent scholarship indicates several benefits of mother tongue education (MTE) in supporting student learning. Within one Mayan community in Guatemala, Ixil is the mother tongue spoken at home and faces extinction due to Indigenous oppression and genocide. This qualitative case study highlights efforts of 13 teachers and administrators at one…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Native Language Instruction, American Indian Languages, Case Studies
Pedagogical Mentorship as an In-Service Training Resource: Perspectives from Teachers in Guatemalan Rural and Indigenous Schools
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de la Garza, Katy – Global Education Review, 2016
This study analyzed challenges faced by teachers in rural and Indigenous schools, and the impact of pedagogical mentorship in contributing towards more culturally and linguistically relevant education. Using a case from Guatemala, this article explored pedagogical mentorship as an in-service teacher training resource for multi-lingual and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Mentors, Teacher Attitudes
Supply-Side Interventions and Student Learning in Guatemala
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Vasquez, William F. – International Review of Education, 2012
This paper presents estimates of production functions of reading and mathematics test scores to assess the effects of supply-side interventions, such as the provision of a community-based school management programme, bilingual education and multigrade teaching, on student learning in Guatemala. The efficiency and consistency of the estimates is…
Descriptors: Traditional Schools, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Education, Multigraded Classes
Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in a Complex Context
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Herrera, Lazaro Moreno; Wedin, Asa – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2010
This article is based on results from a baseline study for an intended intervention project in bilingual-intercultural education in the Municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacan, in the Department of San Marcos, Guatemala. To a great extent the article deals with issues of bilingual education from the perspective of social justice. It analyses the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Multicultural Education, Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries
Educational Policy Formation in Loosely Coupled Systems: Some Salient Features of Guatemala's Public and Private School Sectors.
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Ruano, Carlos R. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2003
Analyzed the formulation and implementation of educational policy processes in relation to private schools in Guatemala, focusing on bilingual education in a sample of six private schools. Findings document many characteristics of private schools in Guatemala, including inadequate teacher and administrator training and a lack of cooperation…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cooperation, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education