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TitelBilingual education and community participation : keys to successful transitions in Guatemala  
AuteurB. Terraza
Jaar2006
TijdschriftEarly Childhood Matters
Serienummer107
Pagina's38-41
ISSN1387-9553
OrganisatieBernard van Leer Foundation
OnderwerpEducation, Science and Technology
Trefwoordeneducation, children, indigenous peoples, communities
RegioCentral America
LandGuatemala
SamenvattingThe Asociación de Promotores de Educación Inicial Bilingüe (APEDIBIMI) has developed its programme in the Ixil area of El Quiché Department in northwest Guatemala, where indigenous people account for 90 percent of the population. This is the home of the Ixiles, one of the 22 ethnic Mayan groups that make up 60 percent of the total national population. Their mother tongue, Ixil, is a factor in the area’s social cohesion as well as a means of transmitting and disseminating the group’s traditional culture and teachings. APEDIBIMI is a comprehensive effort to respond to the educational needs of the whole community, and particularly the early childhood group, using bilingualism to combat social exclusion. The association’s members originate from the same communities in which they offer their services and are elected by those communities. Their mother tongue is the same as the children’s, but they also have Spanish. As well as living in the community where they teach, they have a knowledge of the community’s history and culture and maintain regular contact with its leaders.  
TaalEngels
CategoriePractice
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