To Make Known in Order to Recognize: Schools as Vehicles for Constructing Identity for the Maya Peoples

Although the Guatemalan population is made up of 53% Indigenous peoples, there a certain belief according to which peoples are still currently associated with underdevelopment, inferiority, submission, and exploitation, causing that, for many, being Mayan not synonymous identity, but poverty, neglect, inferiority. Through biographical–naturalist study, we delve into how teachers experienced only their being, also construction identity was gestated in schools. After carrying out data analysis process, underline describe culture, worldview, language constitutes difficulty an obstacle personal Guatemala. We experience lived monolingual monoethnic schools culture recognized, use its expression prohibited. review repercussions that actions political agendas have on key recognition, highlighting how, beyond legislative indications, it involvement making possible make known recognize culture.