Recognizing Indigenous Languages
Double Binds of State Policy and Teaching Kichwa in Ecuador
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 December 2023
- ISBN 9780197559185
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 160x226x27 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English 447
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Short description:
This book looks at state governance and communication as related to Kichwa language reclamation and schooling in Ecuador including the benefits and unplanned outcomes of these cultural politics and policies. Drawing in-depth ethnographic research with state actors and mediators, including planners, linguists, and teachers, Nicholas Limerick details the process of adapting Indigenous language use for the very institutions that have suppressed it.
MoreLong description:
What follows when state institutions name historically oppressed languages as official? What happens when bilingual education activists gain the right to coordinate schooling from upper-level state offices? The intercultural bilingual school system in Ecuador has been one of the most prominent referents of Indigenous education in the Americas. Since its establishment in 1988, members of Ecuador's pueblos and nationalities have coordinated a second national school system that includes the teaching of Indigenous languages. Based on more than two years of ethnographic research in Ecuador's Ministry of Education, at international and national conferences, in workshops, in schools, and with families, Recognizing Indigenous Languages considers how state agents carry out linguistic and educational politics and policies in eras of greater inclusivity and multiculturalism. This book shows how institutional advances for bilingual education and Indigenous languages have been premised on affirming the equality-and the equivalency-of the linguistic and cultural practices of members of Indigenous pueblos and nationalities with other Ecuadorians. Major responsibilities like serving as national state agents, crafting a standardized variety of the Kichwa language family, translating legal documents to Kichwa, and teaching Indigenous languages in schools have provided vast authority, representation, and visibility for those languages and their speakers. However, the everyday work of directing a school system and making Kichwa a language of the state includes double binds that work against the very goals of autonomous schooling and getting people to speak and write Kichwa.
MoreTable of Contents:
Part I
Introduction
Chapter 1: Introducing Double Binds of State Institutions and Linguistic Recognition
Part II
Chapter 2: The Intercultural Era: Kichwa, Literacy, and Schooling in National Politics and Policy
Chapter 3: Unified Kichwa? Unions, Divisions, and Overlap in Language Standardization
Chapter 4: Promise and Predicament as Professionals
Part III
Chapter 5: Translating the Law to Kichwa
Chapter 6: Speaking for a State: How and Whom to Greet?
Chapter 7: Modeling Intercultural Citizenship Through Language Instruction
Conclusions
Notes on Transcription
References
Acknowledgments
Notes
