Primary Education, Culture, and Cognitive Processes of Yucatec Mayan Children
Primary Education, Culture, and Cognitive Processes of Yucatec Mayan Children
This project links researchers and students from six different colleges and universities in Mexico and the United States . The basic focus of the research is to determine if there are ways to leverage the indigenous linguistic and cultural resources of the residents of a Yucatecan Mayan village to enhance the education of their children in a school system where Spanish and the uniform national curriculum of Mexico are standard. The US researchers include experts in the Mayan language and local culture in Illinois and an expert on leveraging indigenous funds of knowledge for promoting education in Arizona , as well as the researchers at LCHC. The researchers and students in the Yucatan carry out investigations in a local village where Cole conducted related research 30 years ago to better understand the linguistic practices in the children's classrooms and homes and the attitudes towards Mayan language and culture characteristic of the children's parents and teachers. The Mexican team participated in regular seminars with researchers and students from four different U.S. universities. (Co-PIs: Mike Cole & Juan Carlos Mijangos Noh; Collaborators: Suzanne Gaskins, Virginia Gordon, John Lucy, Luis Moll; Graduate Students: Patricia Azuara, Robert Lecusay, Luis Cerveto Robles, Fabiola Romero).