Abstract

BRICENO ALCARAZ, Gloria Esther; CHAVEZ GONZALEZ, Alejandro  and  MURILLO HERNANDEZ, Martha Patricia. A day of class at the Wixarika Intercultural School from North Jalisco. Sinéctica [online]. 2018, n.50. ISSN 2007-7033.  https://doi.org/10.31391/s2007-7033(2018)0050-002.

In this paper, we describe the socio-cultural and educational conditions of an intercultural bilingual school from the wixárika culture at Northern Jalisco. This study aims to explore how the pedagogical actions of the bilingual intercultural program are implanted in rural communities like Haimatsie. Therefore, we observed the didactic strategies used by native teachers for encourage the use of the wixárika mother language in the teaching and learning of literacy. The fieldwork of this ethnographic study was developed in three stages over three years (with stays of one month each school year). One of the findings is that the teachers of this school did not know the intercultural teaching strategies that the context required and they did not have enough bilingual linguistic command for teaching.

Keywords : interculturality; bilingualism; school; culture.