Quechua and Aymara Textbooks in an Autonomous Education Project in the Kallawaya Region of Bolivia.
An educational initiative called Aynikusun in northwest Bolivia, run by rural Indigenous communities with the assistance of a Belgian agronomist, significantly transformed social relations between Spanish‐speaking townspeople and their campesino neighbors in the 1980s and 1990s. This article—co‐auth...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 1 - 15 |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2025
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=188176262&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 188176262 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 19354932 3QKK jtl: Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology issn: 19354932 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Sep2025 vid: 30 iid: 3 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 188176262 10.1111/jlca.70022 ppf: 1 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P size: 7.8MB tig: atl: Quechua and Aymara Textbooks in an Autonomous Education Project in the Kallawaya Region of Bolivia. aug: au: Alderman, Jonathan Patty, Feliciano affil: University of St Andrews, Fife, UK Ayllu Niñocorín, Department of La Paz,, Bolivia su: Bolivia Literacy Native language Self-efficacy Learning Indigenous peoples of South America Textbooks sug: subj: Literacy Native language Self-efficacy Learning Bolivia Other printing Indigenous peoples of South America Textbooks ab: An educational initiative called Aynikusun in northwest Bolivia, run by rural Indigenous communities with the assistance of a Belgian agronomist, significantly transformed social relations between Spanish‐speaking townspeople and their campesino neighbors in the 1980s and 1990s. This article—co‐authored by an anthropologist and one of the school's directors—highlights the "revolutionary" education Aynikusun provided by enabling students to complete their high school education using texts written in Quechua and Aymara that reflected local realities, rather than the Spanish‐language textbooks of state schools, which were oriented toward a metropolitan national culture. Literate campesinos no longer needed to rely on the townspeople, for example, to navigate state bureaucracy. Aynikusun also provided its adult students with a dedicated space in which to discuss their problems free from interference. This became particularly important prior to municipal elections in 1995, the first time a mayor was elected from one of the Indigenous communities rather than the town, Charazani. Prior to the election, campesinos deliberated shared challenges and reimagined their relationship with the town. Ultimately, literacy and empowerment fostered by Aynikusun made it possible for campesinos to govern the municipality and to reshape social relations. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|