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Primary Education in Ecuador's Chota Valley: Reflections on Education and Social Reproduction in the Development Era

Primary Education in Ecuador's Chota Valley: Reflections on Education and Social Reproduction in the Development Era

Lucas, Kevin

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General EducationGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 1581121024
ISBN13: 9781581121025
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Published: Dec 1 2000
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In November 1998, the author arrived in Mascarilla, a small village in Ecuador's predominantly-black Chota Valley, to begin a six-month teaching assignment at the Escuela Hernando Tquez (the local primary school). Based both on his own observations and on the assessments offered by various former students, parents, community leaders, and Ecuadorean scholars, the author judges the educational performance of the Escuela Hernando Tquez to be grossly inadequate. Indeed, the various shortcomings attributed to the school (and documented as a case study in chapters three and four of this book) are so glaring that the author was led to question how such a dysfunctional school could be allowed to exist in a country where the government states that to improve education is to improve the quality of life of Ecuador's people. Ultimately, the school's failure to provide quality education to its students forced the author to reconsider the true purpose of public education.

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