Educational Biography of an Arakmbut.

Y

5

Acculturation; Autobiographies; Biculturalism; Educational Experience; Elementary Secondary Education; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Indigenous Populations; Nonformal Education; Student Experience

0305-0068

An indigenous Peruvian sociologist of the Arakmbut people describes his educational experiences, including Harakmbut education for survival in the Peruvian rainforest, primary education in a village school with a national "Spanified" curriculum, scholarships that enabled an academic secondary and higher education outside the rainforest, struggles to adapt academically and socially, and connection to the indigenous rights movement. (SV)

2003

EJ670243