"The task of education is to train human beings for the present and for all this, beings in which any human being can trust and respect, beings capable of thinking about everything and do whatever you want as a responsible act from social conscience "Humberto Maturana.
The pursuit and implementation of an educational model that values \u200b\u200bthe world view and respect the rights of indigenous peoples has always been the interest of the Foundation Rigoberta Menchu \u200b\u200bTum, for the creation of a truly democratic state, pluralistic and intercultural, based on respect and equality between peoples. In this way through higher education can claim the full individual and collective, ie education meets the needs for the community, family, person, work and culture. Not forgetting that education must teach tolerance and full exercise of citizenship. That is, educate and learn to respect differences, be it political, religious, gender, ideological or class.
Thus, higher education should enable learning from student's own culture. This means to assume the native language as communication and teaching and articulating element that generates new learning, whereas language is a source of life, culture, science, history and identity. Language par excellence has enabled indigenous peoples to survive many attempts at extermination and cultural assimilation as well as being an element of transmission of ancient values \u200b\u200band principles to understand the logic of life in a cosmic context of interdependence.
Within this framework of ideas for several years has been working with the School Teachers' Media-EFPEM-University of San Carlos of Guatemala the need for academic upgrading and training of professionals with the tools necessary to build an education based on respect, solidarity, cooperation, the pursuit of harmony, dialogue, consensus, work and sense of responsibility and values necessary to face future life and build a better country. As part of steps towards this effort, which constitute the Faculty of Education Degree in Media and Education for Multicultural Contexts, approved by the Higher University Council on September 8, 2004, supervised and coordinated by EFPEM and implemented with technical support Rigoberta Menchu \u200b\u200bTum Foundation. that has been developed for two promotions, the first from the years 2004-2006, benefiting more than 125 teachers. The second promotional activities for the years 2007-2010 which delivery Guatemala 300 graduate students. In the above races are universal combines scientific knowledge with scientific knowledge of Mayan culture, Mayan language use in various areas of national social life, the practice of world view, also as part of the immediate actions posed country's educational reform, to provide teaching tools, techniques and methodologies to provide bilingual education for all.
The Teacher Training and Education degree in multicultural settings have been driven in seven departments of Guatemala, Mayan languages \u200b\u200bcovered eleven of the 22 existing and developed specifically in educational: Barillas, San Rafael la Independencia, San Ildefonso Ixtahuacan and Huehuetenango Department Huehuetenango, San Marcos, Department of San Marcos, San Juan Ostuncalco the Department of Quetzaltenango, San Lucas Toliman, Department of Solola, Tactic and Cahabón the Department of Alta Verapaz, El Estor the Department of Izabal, San Luis and Sayaxché Department Petén.
Importantly Intercultural Bilingual Education is a subject of recent collision at the University of San Carlos de Guatemala. The initial basis of the projects are credited to the FRMT. Stressing that such efforts have been with the total technical and financial support of the Basque Government through gainetik Mugen. It is certainly write a new page in the history of the university.
The raid and specialized training in this career has allowed students to improve their job opportunities in the following way:
Teachers and teachers out of work, have managed to get seats a contract, budgeted positions and seats on the baseline and diversified.
teachers who worked under contract, have been located in places budgeted.
population and graduate curriculum and closure has had the opportunity to work at the basic level and diversified. In addition to some and some have had the opportunity to locate in other areas of the MOE, especially in the Departmental of Intercultural Bilingual Education, and Technical Guidelines-OTEBIS Intercultural Bilingual Education, and lately, some of the students that have gone curriculum undergraduate and in the process of elaboration of the thesis, and are being considered by the School Teachers' Training Media EFPEM / USAC as facilitators of the training process in the program Academic Training National Teaching Professional, coordinated from this university at the top.
His teacher performance is enhanced because:
training draws precisely the expertise of indigenous peoples and expressed in their own language. So participate in the appreciation of Mayan culture and language by returning the rightful place.
is generated greater awareness of their own Mayan culture for students, which also affects their self-esteem increased. And for students Ladino generates an assessment of the Mayan culture.
communities that already benefit from having professional education intercultural bilingual gives them opportunities for facilities management of primary and secondary level. USAC taps
The training of professionals who can contribute to addressing diversity in a responsible manner.
And finally, this race is responding to the Education Reform stated since the Peace Accords, in which the country is set to Guatemala as a multicultural, multilingual and multiethnic. Therefore, the need for culturally relevant education and linguistic based from the culture and worldview of the people who coexist in Guatemala.
We welcome back to Guatemala to deliver the second graduation 300 students from the 12 study centers in the country.
Our struggle will continue to Guatemala to build a fair, pluralistic and inclusive of all peoples.
is always possible to build an inclusive Guatemala.
