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WIPCE 2011
from Alaska Native Knowledge Network - Sunday, 17 October 2010, 01:24 pm
 
9th World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education

August 14 – 18, 2011
Cusco, Peru


WIPCE PERU 2011 main theme: "Living our Indigenous Roots",
Sub-themes have also been developed, with each day focusing on one of them:

A. Indigenous Education for future Generations: A strategy to preserve our Indigenous languages, cultures, sciences, arts and philosophies, cases where Indigenous Education is recognized and enforced by national policies;

B. Living Indigenous Languages: As cultural empowerment and awakening through curricula development, on-line courses, teaching and learning methodologies, practices and techniques by age brackets, bilingual and intercultural education; and,

C. Indigenous Knowledge for Common Well-being : As ways of knowing and as contributions to the world, as well as a complement to Western Sciences and to the academia, recognition of oral traditions as a transmission of knowledge.

Call for Abstracts due January 1, 2011 WIPCE 2011 web site: www.wipce2011.net

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