Intercultural Education and Literacy: An Ethnographic Study of Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in the Peruvian Amazone

by Sheila Aikman

Indigenous peoples around the world are calling for control over their education in order to reaffirm their identities and defend their rights. In Latin America the indigenous peoples, national governments and international organisations have identified intercultural education as a means of contributing to this process. The book investigates education for and by indigenous peoples and examines the relationship between theoretical and methodological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556193858
• ISBN13: 9781556193859
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 232 Pages