Ways of Constructing "Community": Resistance and Reproduction of Intercultural Bilingual Policies

• In Event: Roundtable Session 46
  In Roundtable Session: Relating to Each Other as Family: Indigenous Education Communities

Abstract

Phillip et al.’s (2013) claimed that ambiguous notions and uses of the term “community” can lead to reproductions of power dynamics and ideological discourses. In following this logic, I analyze how preschool members and Indigenous community members – in IBE preschools in Santiago, Chile- use the construct of “community” in order to better understand potential opportunities that exist to establish interaction and collaboration between these two groups.
Based on the critical and Indigenous pedagogies approach, the following themes emerged from this qualitative comparative case study: (a) Mapuche community as bearer of Indigenous culture, (b) Mapuche community as organizers, (c) Mapuche community as visitors, and (d) Mapuche communities as companions.

Author

• Rukmini Becerra-Lubies, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile