The "Indigenous" Teacher: Toward a History of the Present of Teacher Education

• In Event: Roundtable Session 56
  In Roundtable Session: Invigorating Indigenous Identities and Pedagogies

Abstract

This paper engages in the study of teacher education as it related to “issues of indigeneity” in Guatemala. As education continues to be charged with “solving the social problems in the country,” highlighting the conditions that have made teacher education possible is important in uncovering the grid of philosophical heritages that fund what is (im)possible to think and do in education. This study used genealogical history (Foucault, 1977) and anthropology towards engaging with a history of the present of teacher education in Guatemala vis à vis interculturalism today. Findings point to continuities of certain development notions that reason the indigenous-child-other from within a stagiest template.

Author

• Ligia L. Lopez, University of Wisconsin - Madison