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dc.contributor.authorAikman, Sheila*
dc.contributor.editorSweetman, Carolineen
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-24T10:11:56Zen
dc.date.available2011-05-24T10:11:56Zen
dc.date.issued2002-11-01en
dc.identifier.issn1355-2074en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13552070215917en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10546/131491en
dc.descriptionFormal education is often assumed to be a positive force for change, enabling people to find a route out of poverty. However, this is not always the case. The Haramkbut community in the Peruvian Amazon are now questioning the widespread assumption that schooling can provide knowledge and skills for establishing alternative livelihoods. Indigenous knowledge and traditional forms of work have been devalued through economic changes forced upon the Haramkbut by ecological destruction and environmental degradation. The result of this has been a process of impoverishment, which has been worsened by missionary education and an adherence to the national Spanish-language curriculum. In contrast, the indigenous model of intercultural bilingual education which is currently being 'rolled out' to the Harakmbut puts indigenous knowledge and practices at the centre of its curriculum, pedagogy and philosophy. This in turn contrasts with the education reform measures currently being implemented nationally through the Ministry of Education. Education could and should be a positive force in the lives of the Harakmbut people, and Harakmbut women in particular, and in their fight against an impoverishment of their way of life. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the <a href="http://www.genderanddevelopment.org">Gender and Development</a> website.en
dc.format.extent10en
dc.format.mimetypePDFen
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.publisherOxfam GBen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.urlhttp://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/womens-oral-knowledge-and-the-poverty-of-formal-education-in-the-se-peruvian-am-131491
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectGender
dc.titleWomen's oral knowledge and the poverty of formal education in the SE Peruvian Amazonen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.eissn1364-9221en
dc.identifier.journalGender & Developmenten
oxfam.signoff.statusFor public use – can be shared outside Oxfamen
oxfam.subject.countryPeruen
oxfam.subject.keywordGender and Development Journal
oxfam.subject.keywordGaD
prism.issuenamePovertyen
prism.number3en
prism.volume10en
dc.year.issuedate2002en


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