Meanings and Expectations of Rural Education of Mapuche Mothers in La Araucania, Chile
Meanings and Expectations of Rural Education of Mapuche Mothers in La Araucania, Chile
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Villarroel, Viviana
Arias, Katerin
Arias, Katerin
Profesor GuĆa
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10.15366/riejs2024.13.1.014
REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE EDUCACION PARA LA JUSTICIA SOCIAL,Vol.13,253-267,2024
REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE EDUCACION PARA LA JUSTICIA SOCIAL,Vol.13,253-267,2024
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Abstract
The article presents research results that account for the construction of meanings and expectations of Mapuche mothers from La Araucan & iacute;a, Chile, regarding the rural school education they attended and that their children and grandchildren receive today. The methodology is qualitative, six Mapuche mothers who experienced schooling processes and who send their children and grandchildren to the same school were interviewed. The data were analyzed through content analysis in order to identify the explicit and latent meanings that the mothers have constructed around their experience. The main results show that Mapuche mothers have memories of traumatic experiences in their schooling process, supported by physical and symbolic punishment. However, they decide to continue sending their children and grandchildren to those same classroom spaces in the hope that they can achieve a better economic future. Likewise, they hope that with more education they will have a relationship of respect and appreciation of their Mapuche being in society. We conclude that historically school education has been characterized as an oppressive and punishing school that has currently sought its transformation under a discourse of relationships of respect and appreciation of social and cultural diversity.