Language,culture and identity in the transition to primary school: Challenges to indigenous children's rights to education in Peru |
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Authors: | Patricia Ames |
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Institution: | Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Horacio Urteaga 694, Lima 11, Peru |
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Abstract: | This paper analyses a ‘critical moment’ in the educational trajectories of young indigenous children in Peru: the transition to primary school. It addresses the inequalities in educational services that affect indigenous children, before looking at the micro-level processes that take place in school settings, through a focus on two selected case studies from the Young Lives study of childhood poverty. Using longitudinal information collected in two consecutive years, the case studies show how the children's language and culture are excluded from school premises and their very identity as children and indigenous people is disregarded, negatively affecting their educational performance. |
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Keywords: | Indigenous education Educational policy Indigenous children Educational inequalities |
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