Child Development in Post-colonial Contexts Educational Change and Ethnic Transfiguration in a French Guiana Wayana-Apalaï Indigenous Community

Child Development in Post-colonial Contexts Educational Change and Ethnic Transfiguration in a French Guiana Wayana-Apalaï Indigenous Community

A lecture for INTE 2013 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION

Maurizio Alì & Rodica AilincaiUniversité de la Polynésie française - Laboratoire Sociétés Traditionnelles et Contemporaines en Océanie (EASTCO, EA 4241)

This lecture presents a first attempt to describe an emergent dynamic: the transformation of family educational practices between Wayana-Apalaï indigenous people of French Guiana. Ethnographic data collected between 2010 and 2013 show a large set of variations concerning care-giving time, house-keeping charges or the frequency of traditional activities. Taking into the account the role of schooling and based on a critical analysis of the socio-economic and historical context, the authors interpreted the data as demonstrating the hypothesis that Wayana-Apalaï have been involved in a process of Ethnic Transfiguration which in return has had a deep impact on traditional lifestyle, on community schemes for youth training and education and, last but not least, on child social development.

Keywords: care-giving time, domestic education, parenting, cultural minority, traditional success, school success, French Guiana, Wayana, Apalaï.

Podcast video: http://youtu.be/uhnbaXVrIgw?list=UUfHkbwF72XfL20RyGZ38L7w
Podcast audio: http://maurizioali.podomatic.com/entry/2014-12-27T18_22_53-08_00

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