Learning and Growing in Indigenous Amazonia: the Education System of French Guyana Wayana-Apalaï Communities
A lecture for INTE 2013 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION
Maurizio Alì
Université de la Polynésie française - Laboratoire Sociétés Traditionnelles et Contemporaines en Océanie (EASTCO, EA 4241)
This lecture, co-authored with Professor Rodica Ailincai, presents the first results obtained from an exploratory study conducted with a Wayana-Apalaï indigenous community living the High Maroni region, in French Guiana. The study is situated within an ecological and interactionist approach and attempts (1) to understand educational family practices and community logic of children training (2) to describe parents' expectations vis-à-vis their children as a postmodern dynamic. The ethnographic corpus was gathered during a period of five years with the aim to link observed behaviors with contextual and cultural variables. Following the analysis of the data, the authors propose a diagram of a) the micro-systems structuring the Wayana-Apalaï kinship system; b) a description of parental roles and educational functions; c) an overview of parental expectations in terms of "traditional success"/ "school success ".Keywords: parenting, cultural minority, traditional success, school success, French Guiana Wayana.
Podcast audio: http://maurizioali.podomatic.com/entry/2013-06-26T17_13_05-07_00
Podcast video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3vzUCLO-qQ
See also:
- Alì, Maurizio & Ailincai, Rodica. (2013). "Learning and Growing in Indigenous Amazon: the Education System of French Guiana Wayana-Apalaï communities". Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, (2013) 106, p. 1742-1752. [Download from SSOAR]
- Ailincai, R.; Jund, S. & Ali, Maurizio. (2012). "Comparaison des écosystèmes éducatifs chez deux groupes d'Amérindiens: les Wayãpi et les Wayana". Revue française d'éducation comparée, Raisons, Comparaison, Education", 8 (2012): 55-90 [Download from SSOAR or Academia]
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