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Latin American Educational Foundations and Multicultural-Bilingual Education: The Necessary Connection

Mon, April 20, 8:15 to 10:15am, Virtual Room

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This symposium aims to discuss the extent to which multicultural-bilingual educational practices for Latin American people in the U.S., and Indigenous people in Galapagos Islands-Ecuador and Chile can be considered theoretically serious rather than merely folkloric. We ask, Can those Latin American foundations of education inform educational practices rather than instrumental multicultural-bilingual practices that fix deficits? Field data from Indigenous communities in the Galapagos Islands-Ecuador, teachers and administrators from diverse regions of Chile and teachers in the U.S.-Mexico border were transcribed and analyzed. Latin American new methodologies and frameworks such as borderland pedagogies of cariño and frameworks such understanding dignity as a concept that has contested definitions and operationalizations in philosophy (Rosen, 2012; Waldron, 2012) are also discussed.

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