Guatemalan Ixil Community Teacher Perspectives of Language Revitalization and Mother Tongue-Based Intercultural Bilingual Education

Bilingual intercultural education in Ecuador : education as a means of language revitalization

Intercultural Bilingual Education in Latin America: Balance and Perspectives

2. L.E López, since 1996, is Principal Consultant of PROEIB Andes (Training Program in Intercultural Bilingual Education for Andean Countries), of a network of Universities, ministries and indigenous organizations of the Andean sub-region with headquarters in the Universidad Mayor de San Simón de Cochabamba, Bolivia. W. Küper is Principal Assessor of PROFORMA (Teacher Training Project), which s...

Bilingual Children's Mother Tongue: Why Is It Important for Education

Rereading the ratio of two language backgrounds (standard language and mother tongue) in education based on lived experience of primary teachers

The purpose of the current research is to review the ratio of two linguistic approaches (standard language and mother tongue) in education based on the lived experience of elementary teachers. The research paradigm is interpretive/constructive, the research approach is qualitative, the research strategy is phenomenology, and the research tactic is latent content analysis. The purposeful samplin...

Intercultural Bilingual Education and the Officialization of Culture in Perú

This paper examines differing perceptions of interculturalism in bilingual education in Quechua-speaking communities in the Cusco region of Perú and the relative success of state-run and other intercultural bilingual education (IBE) programs. There is general agreement about the importance of the cultural dimension in these programs. Nevertheless, there is a frequent mismatch between government...