WERA Sponsors Invited Symposium at SIEP Conference in Peru

The World Education Research Association (WERA) sponsored an invitational Symposium at the Peruvian Educational Research Society´s (SIEP in Spanish) II National Educational Research Seminar, which was held in Trujillo, Peru, on September 2-4, 2010.

The WERA Symposium “Educational Research for Indigenous and Afrodescendant People,” chaired by Juan Ansion (President of SIEP), included Martin Nakata (Australian Association for Research in Education; AARE), Denise Botelho (Brazilian Black Researchers Association; ABPN in Portuguese), Sylvia Schmelkes (Mexican Council of Education Research; COMIE in Spanish) and Madeleine Zuñiga (SIEP in Spanish). 

The invited speakers, representatives of WERA member institutions, presented:

• Martin Nakata: “The Cultural Interface”;
• Denise Botelho: “Anti-racist Education: A Path for Decolonization. Brazilian Considerations”;
• Sylvia Schmelkes: “Educational Research and Education in and for Cultural Diversity”; and
• Madeleine Zuñiga: “Ethnographic Research: Looking from Inside into Classroom Interculturalism”.

Spanish edition [Click here]
Portuguese edition [Click here]

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