Intercultural Bilingual Education:
The role of participation in improving the quality of education among indigenous communities in Chipas, Mexico
Anni Kasari
Best Overall Performance and Excellent Dissertation Prize,
MSc Development Management (2014)
Abstract
Intercultural bilingual education promises to provide culturally and linguistically pertinent education to marginalised indigenous communities in Mexico. However, legislative advances have not improved academic outcomes among indigenous students. This dissertation goes beyond proximate causes of academic failure to investigate the link between participation and educational quality. It finds that despite the official rhetoric, indigenous communities remain excluded from the design and delivery of education, resulting in a decontextualised learning process where schools reproduce the coercive power relations present in the wider society. It argues that improving educational quality requires transforming those power asymmetries by increasing community participation at all levels.
Keywords
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Education
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Participation
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Mexico
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Inequality
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Indigenous people
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Interculturalism
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