Critical teaching praxis in English teaching for indigenous children in Mexico

• Autor(a) principal: López-Gopar, Mario
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Fórum Linguístico
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/1984-8412.2013v10n4p291

The aim of this article is to present and discuss the critical teaching praxis of the students-teachers of the ethnographic research and action research project developed with children of primary school in an indigenous community in Oaxaca, México. After presenting a brief summary of the current situation of the Mexican indigenous peoples and their tongues, it is presented the general Project to which the students-teachers’ praxis belonged, its theoretical principles and research methodology. Later on, it is developed an ethnographic portrait of Nundichi, the mixtecan community where the students-teachers developed their teaching praxis, and finally, the three topics that emerged from the analysis of that praxis: (1) respect for the community indigenous practices; (2) teaching praxis based on the children’s life and context; and (3) creation of identity text authors within the teaching praxis.