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América Indigena Se, es AMERICA INDIGENA ORGANO TRIMESTRAL DEL INSTITUTO INDIGENISTA INTERAMERICANO Director: MIGUEL LEON-PORTILLA Secretario: DEMETRIO SODI M. ALFREDO LOPEZ AUSTIN Subsecretar Wel XXV MEXICO, D. F., ABRIL, 1965 NUM. 2 EDITORIAL enismo Interamericano presente en un nuevo museo ... 151 American Indianism present in a new museum ........ 153 ARTICULOS Educacién Intercultural, por Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrén ........ 155 Educacin e Integracién de Grupos Indigenas, por Gonzalo Ru- El uso de lenguas indigenas en el desarrollo de los indios ameri- canos en los Estados Unidos, por Hildegard Thompson ..... 229 Gian Education and Indian languages, by Benjamin F. Elson 239 promotores sociales en los programas de integracién, por Héc- tor Martinez . 245 RESENAS BIBLIOGRAFICAS Handbook of Middle American Indians. General Editor, Robert Mianchopel(jucn Comas) ©... ssw eels... es 257 Diccionario del Folklore Ecuatoriano, por Paulo de Carvalho Ne- 40 (Alfredo Lépez Austin) .. 00.0 cccccccceceseseecceeses 259 Codex Selden 3135 (A.2). Edicién facsimilar, acompafiada de un Ebro con la interpretacién del Cédice, por Alfonso Caso (De- CSc eI ene ne eer cee 261 EDUCACION INTERCULTURAL Por Gonzaro Acurrre Bevtrin SUMMARY Every human society has the urgent need to start a pro- cess of transmission of its culture, which receives the name of education, whereby it is pretended to keep the traditio- nally established and, at the same time, through a game of forces, its renewal. ‘This action may be carried out by way of the mechanism called rearing or socialization, through which the young individual acquires the elemental knowledge which will allow him to further integrate himself to adult social life, 2 mechanism sufficient in the communities of scarce division of Tabor and low specialization. Nevertheless, when the societies turn complex, it is necessary to complement the informal edu- cation with the institutionalized, which becomes so important that the concepts of education and scholarship are almost con- founded. So, when it is pretended to bring formal or institutionalized education into the areas of indian refuges, it is necessary to take into consideration that it involves imposition of a cultural imnovation, it is necessary to consider the previous process of socialization that the future students have gone through, that 2 sudden change between the two types of education must be avoided, and that in the intercultural situation, socialization 3 the process of integration of the indian community into the national society, and scholarship the difficult process of cultural renewal. In the intercultural situation characteristic of areas of in- Gian refuge, there have been up to the present, three activities that orient the educational function: conversion, which is cha- racterized by the belief of the educator that he possesses all ‘uth, only formula to elevate any individual in all material and spiritual aspects; domination, in which the group, stronger economically and culturally, imposes on the subordinated po- polation, denying any value to the indian cultures, and accultu- ration which insists in developping the personality of the indian = well as the community, considered as a whole, giving im- pulce fo the ethnic and cultural cross-breeding. The democratic orientation or of acculturation must have 2s 2 fundamental purpose to condition its contents to the ulti- mate finality of conducting as a whole the values which su: the national society and the indian community, with the pur- pe

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