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Pragmatic Literacy and Empowerment: An Aymara Example
Author(s) -
Mitchell Winifred L.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1994.25.3.04x0141k
Subject(s) - literacy , empowerment , peasant , identity (music) , sociology , adult literacy , literacy education , gender studies , pedagogy , political science , law , physics , acoustics
An adult literacy campaign in the peasant village of Kullaka in the Peruvian Andes is described as successful, not because the monolingual Aymara‐speaking women achieve Spanish literacy, but because they are empowered by the process. They insist that their teacher follow standard literacy teaching practices that allow them to pass a test and obtain their first‐grade literacy certificates and their official identity cards.