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Reading Is for Knowing - Literacy Acquisition, Retention, and Usage Among the Machiguenga (Paperback, New)
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Reading Is for Knowing - Literacy Acquisition, Retention, and Usage Among the Machiguenga (Paperback, New)
Series: Publications in Language Use and Education, 1
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The Peruvian Ministry of Education initiated bilingual schools in
Amazonia soon after the Machiguenga people-inhabitants of the
Peruvian rainforest-received a written alphabet in the late 1940s.
Despite barriers of distance, language and cultural diversity, this
educational program is an ongoing success. The 1993 data shows an
average literacy rate of nearly 65 percent, with high literacy
use-predictive of literacy continuance. This first-hand account, by
the educator who helped develop the Machiguenga schools, is rich
with descriptions, providing teachers and literacy practitioners an
in-depth study of a minority-language educational program. Students
of cross-cultural training will find a culturally sensitive model
for teaching and evaluation. This study is significant since it
relates the favorable attitudes toward literacy among an isolated
people group, formerly in a monolingual area with no government
schools until 1954. Equally noteworthy is the fact that Machiguenga
teachers have conducted all primary level education even though
they were at first barely literate themselves. These maturing
teachers continued their education during summer sessions and
shared their knowledge with their pupils year by year as they
themselves advanced through the grades. Currently the three area
high schools are staffed both by Spanish-speaking teachers and
Machiguenga personnel with tertiary education. This book reflects
the delight the Machiguenga people find in learning. They have
voluntarily expended enormous effort to make reading a part of
their society. This is both a scholarly work and a present day
drama.
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