Cross-Cultural Cognitive Categorization of Students by Guatemalan Teachers  

Oleh:

Chesterfield, Ray A. ; Enge, Kjell I. ; Rubio, Fernando E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Cross-Cultural Research vol. 36 no. 2 (May 2002), page 103-122.
Fulltext: 103CCR362.pdf (104.42KB)

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Since the 1996 Peace Accords, bilingual education in Guatemala has become a major concern among educators, but little is known about how teachers of different ethnicity view and interact withMayan and ladino children. Using terminology employed by teachers as a basis for cognitive categorization of ethnicity, cultural domain analysis examined teachers’ perceptions of student characteristics. The categorizations were then related to observed teacher-student interaction in rural primary school classrooms. The results suggest ethnic and cultural differences in teacher cognition, as ladino teachers categorized Mayans more positively and were highly homogeneous in their classification of indigenous students and Mayan teachers viewed ladino students more positively and were more homogeneous in their classification of students like themselves. Both

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