ELMER: A CLASSROOM INTERVENTION FOR INTERCULTURAL BILINGUAL EDUCATION

Intercultural Bilingual Education and the Officialization of Culture in Perú

This paper examines differing perceptions of interculturalism in bilingual education in Quechua-speaking communities in the Cusco region of Perú and the relative success of state-run and other intercultural bilingual education (IBE) programs. There is general agreement about the importance of the cultural dimension in these programs. Nevertheless, there is a frequent mismatch between government...

Intercultural Bilingual Education in Latin America: Balance and Perspectives

2. L.E López, since 1996, is Principal Consultant of PROEIB Andes (Training Program in Intercultural Bilingual Education for Andean Countries), of a network of Universities, ministries and indigenous organizations of the Andean sub-region with headquarters in the Universidad Mayor de San Simón de Cochabamba, Bolivia. W. Küper is Principal Assessor of PROFORMA (Teacher Training Project), which s...

Bilingual intercultural education in Ecuador : education as a means of language revitalization

Interruptive Caring in a Bilingual Classroom

Drawing from ethnographic research data and couched in critical care research, the author introduces the concept of ‘interruptive caring’ – a critical approach to caring that both transforms deficit-oriented school practices and challenges the underlying ideologies that inform and rationalize the inequitable power imbalances that operate within a school system. The author examines the concept o...

A Model for Enhancing Intercultural Communication in Nursing Education

Based on real-world experience, this article constructs a model to improve intercultural communication in nursing education. First, a framework of cultural variability is described to provide a conceptual lens through which to examine the experience that led to this article. Second, accounts of an event during a clinical nursing course that caused misunderstanding are presented. Third, through ...