Collective and collaborative actions among peers in school as a form of cultural resistance of Mapuche children in La Araucanía, Chile

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ID2919154
AuthorsAna María Alarcón (Universidad de La Frontera), Paula Alonqueo (0000-0002-4582-1262, Universidad de La Frontera, corresponding author), Carlos Hidalgo (0000-0001-9394-0322, Universidad de La Frontera), Carolina Hidalgo-Standen, Marcela Castro (Department of Public Health, University of La Frontera, Temuco, Chile)
Year2024
Volume41
Issue3
Pages670-686
Publication date2024-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social and Personal Relationships (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0265-4075 • E-ISSN: 1460-3608
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/02654075221126543
OpenAlexW4298394946
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited25

Based on a participant observation, this article reports children actions and activities that may identified as ways of cultural resistance in the school. Three elementary rural schools participated in this study. The research team visited each school taking field notes during school routines. The analysis consisted of textual and conceptual codification of the three contexts in which the mapuche children deployed their patterns of cultural interaction. The results demonstrated that despite the traditional school system, mapuche children display their own patterns of cultural interaction to promote collaboration, collective organization and supporting and care for others. This work invites us to questioning the ways in which the learning strategies of the western school, are suitable to the mapuche indigenous children. In order to be effective in education, we must integrate the cultural framework of family learning. Thus, may be necessary, to deconstruct hegemonic teaching practices that stimulate individualism instead cooperation

Hegemony · Indigenous · Individualism · Participant observation · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Indigenous Studies in Latin America · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics · Psychology · Social Psychology

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