"Rethinking Bilingual Education Under the Government of Evo Morales"
DENISE ARNOLD, Director, Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara, La Paz, Bolivia, and Visiting Professor, Birkbeck College London
Arnold has worked for many years on native forms of knowledge in Bolivia and has a particular interest in the need to understand weaving and other cultural practices, especially those undertaken by women, as Andean types of text. She will speak about bilingual education programmes, including those of the new government of Evo Morales, in the context of the need to make native knowledge an active component of them. She earned her doctoral degree in anthropology from University College London. Arnold's most recent book is "The Metamorphosis of Heads" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006).
This event is co-sponsored with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and the School of Education.