Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ678224
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Publication Date: 2001
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Popular Education and Post-War Democratization: The Case of PENNAT, Guatemala.
Dyrness, Andrea
Current Issues in Comparative Education, v4 n1 Dec 2001
A Guatemalan program teaches Indigenous working children where they work--in the streets. The teachers, who are also Mayan, accommodate student needs and involve parents. This program of popular education empowers poor children and adults to participate in public life and lead the way in the creation of a democracy. (Contains 20 references.) (TD)
Descriptors: Access to Education, American Indian Education, Child Labor, Community Education, Democracy, Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Personnel, Maya (People), Nonschool Educational Programs, Nontraditional Education, Popular Education, Program Descriptions, Social Change, Urban American Indians, Urban Youth
For full text: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice/articles/ad141.htm/.
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Guatemala
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