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Teacher Training in Bilingual Education in Peru

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Second and Foreign Language Education

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Teacher training in bilingual education in Peru, a country with a total of 40 indigenous languages, constitutes a recent phenomenon that started in the decade of 1990, after bilingual education was already taking place in primary schools through experimental programs since the 1970s. This chapter will review the situation of teacher training in both the Andean and the Amazonian region, taking into account the difference in the number of languages and the ways in which indigenous identity is dealt with. Teacher training in bilingual education faces multiple struggles that are still difficult to overcome: the specialization in Intercultural Bilingual Education (IBE) is imparted almost exclusively in Spanish, the dichotomy of mother tongue/second language is insufficient to encompass the wide spectrum of bilingualism that characterizes the students involved, indigenous literacy is still not assumed within a social practice perspective, language and culture are addressed within purist ideologies, and homogenizing policies for the admission process erase students’ diversity, among others. Furthermore, despite the fact that there is a deficit of IBE teachers in the country, the percentage of institutions with this specialization is still quite low.

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  1. Sección Lingüística y Literatura, Departamento de Humanidades, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Av. Universitaria 1801, San Miguel, Lima, Peru

    Virginia Zavala

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  1. Center Language Study, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl

  2. Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Stephen May

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Zavala, V. (2017). Teacher Training in Bilingual Education in Peru. In: Van Deusen-Scholl, N., May, S. (eds) Second and Foreign Language Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02246-8_31

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