Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016): Enero-diciembre
B) Diversidad, interculturalidad, género y sustentabilidad en la educación

Raramuri cultural practices in an intercultural middleschool in the Tarahumara

Francisco Javier Ortiz Mendoza
Centro de Investigación y Docencia, Chihuahua, México
Federico Julián Mancera Valencia
Centro de Investigación y Docencia, Chihuahua, México

Published 2016-09-01

Keywords

  • Prácticas culturales,
  • prácticas pedagógicas,
  • interculturalidad,
  • resistencia,
  • bi(tri)lingüismo
  • Cultural practices,
  • pedagogical practices,
  • interculturality,
  • resistance,
  • trilingual

How to Cite

Ortiz Mendoza, F. J., & Mancera Valencia, F. J. (2016). Raramuri cultural practices in an intercultural middleschool in the Tarahumara. RECIE. Revista Electrónica Científica De Investigación Educativa, 3(1), 161-169. Retrieved from https://mail.rediech.org/ojs/2017/index.php/recie/article/view/197

Abstract

The following paper explores teaching practices that incorporate tasks and knowledge from the Raramuri culture in the school life of a trilingual middle school in Basihuare, Chihuahua. The experiences emerge from the stories of the founding professors- three indigenous and a mestizo-. Some of the practices detected in this qualitative study could be interpreted as hints of an emerging alterity educational model; Classroom organization as an extension of the traditional Raramuri community meetings; and the court cases as well, an ancestral practice replicated in the middle schools to reestablish harmony in case of conflict between students.