September 10, 2025Modern Language Journal

Disentangling (de)colonial teacher education in the Andes: Dilemmas and possibilities

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VZVirginia ZavalaPontifical Catholic University of Peru

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Ethnographic analysis highlights the complexities of language empowerment in Quechua education, suggesting significant implications for intercultural teaching.

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Decolonial strategies in education can empower students and confront linguistic hierarchies, promoting social justice.
Activists developed an academic Quechua register, aiming to empower Indigenous students as authors in their own language.
The study reveals contradictions in promoting a disembodied Quechua while disfavoring translanguaging and bilingualism.
Further cycles of critical reflection are necessary to enhance the effectiveness of decolonial educational approaches.

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Virginia Zavala (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c23dc5b210217d6478f321 https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.13012

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Ethnographic analysis highlights the complexities of language empowerment in Quechua education, suggesting significant implications for intercultural teaching.

Disentangling (de)colonial teacher education in the Andes: Dilemmas and possibilities

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Disentangling (de)colonial teacher education in the Andes: Dilemmas and possibilities

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