Absolutely, it’s terrible and that loss is irreplaceable. I don’t want to diminish that truth at all, just to respect the indigenous people that want to emphasize their continued survivance.
Speaking of the Mayas, check out EZLN. I was at Zapatista’s schools in the high mountains of Chiapas and it was amazing to me seeing how they live there and how they reference themselves, individually, as inheritors of Mayan culture…
Damn, I wish I’d known about that when I was writing a paper about Paulo Freire last semester! It sounds, if not identical to his problem-posing education, very much founded in the same spirit.
Absolutely, it’s terrible and that loss is irreplaceable. I don’t want to diminish that truth at all, just to respect the indigenous people that want to emphasize their continued survivance.
Speaking of the Mayas, check out EZLN. I was at Zapatista’s schools in the high mountains of Chiapas and it was amazing to me seeing how they live there and how they reference themselves, individually, as inheritors of Mayan culture…
Damn, I wish I’d known about that when I was writing a paper about Paulo Freire last semester! It sounds, if not identical to his problem-posing education, very much founded in the same spirit.