| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Oxford studies in the anthropology of language |
| Contents |
Introducing double binds of state institutions and linguistic recognition -- The intercultural era: Kichwa, literacy, and schooling in national politics and policy -- Unified Kichwa? Unions, divisions, and overlap in language standardization -- Promise and predicament as professionals -- Translating the law to Kichwa -- Speaking for a state: how and whom to greet? -- Modeling intercultural citizenship through language instruction |
| Summary |
"What follows when state institutions name historically oppressed languages as official? What happens when bilingual education activists gain the right to coordinate schooling from upper-level state offices? The intercultural bilingual school system in Ecuador has been one of the most prominent examples of Indigenous education in Central and South America. Since its establishment in 1988, members of Ecuador's pueblos and nationalities have worked from state institutions to coordinate a second national school system that includes the teaching of Indigenous languages. Based on more than two years of ethnographic research in Ecuador's Ministry of Education, at international and national conferences, in workshops, in schools, and with families, Recognizing Indigenous Languages considers how state agents carry out linguistic and educational politics in eras of greater inclusivity and multiculturalism. This book shows how institutional advances for bilingual education and Indigenous languages have been premised on affirming the equality - and the equivalency - of the linguistic and cultural practices of members of Indigenous pueblos and nationalities with other Ecuadorians. Major responsibilities like serving as national state agents, crafting a standardized variety of Kichwa, and teaching Indigenous languages in schools provide vast authority, representation, and visibility for those languages and their speakers. However, the everyday work of directing a school system and making Kichwa a language of the state includes double binds that work against the very goals of autonomous schooling and getting people to speak and write Kichwa"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Education, Bilingual -- Ecuador
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Language policy -- Ecuador
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Multicultural education -- Ecuador
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Quechua language -- Study and teaching -- Ecuador
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Quechua language -- Dialects -- Ecuador
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Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Ethnic identity
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Education, Bilingual
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Indians of South America -- Ethnic identity
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Language policy
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Multicultural education
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Quechua language -- Dialects
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Quechua language -- Study and teaching
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Education.
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Education.
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Ecuador
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023011405 |
| ISBN |
0197559204 |
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9780197559208 |
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9780197559215 |
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0197559212 |
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