FW: Bolivia to Open 3 Universities Teaching in Indigenous Languages

[MJ Hardman]

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From: Laurie Taylor <lautayl at uflib.ufl.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:04:04 -0400

Subject: Bolivia to Open 3 Universities Teaching in Indigenous Languages

I just saw this and thought everyone would be interested!
 
From: 
http://chronicle.com/news/article/5003/bolivia-to-open-3-universities-teachi
ng-in-indigenous-languages
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August 15, 2008: Bolivia to Open 3 Universities Teaching in Indigenous
Languages
 
Bolivia plans to open three indigenous universities next year that will
teach in Aymara, Quechua, and Guarani, which are co-official languages in
the South American country, along with Spanish. The Bolivian president, Evo
Morales, has said the universities would help ³decolonize² the country
ideologically, culturally, socially, and economically, El Pais
<http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Licenciados/aimara/elpepusoc/200808
15elpepusoc_1/Tes>  reports (in Spanish).
 
The plan has stirred debate among some Bolivian educators, who have
criticized the universities¹ would-be teachers as inadequately trained, and
who have worried about the limits of teaching exclusively in the local
languages.
 
The Bolivian Education and Culture Department said the universities¹
curricula would be completed by September, and so far they include subjects
such as tropical agronomy, animal husbandry, and forestry, all of them ³in
great demand.² ‹Maria José Viñas
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Laurie N. Taylor
Digital Library Center
University of Florida Libraries
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