The Education of Indigenous Children in Latin America: Progress, Challenges and the Historical Outstanding Debt (02.29.24) | Latin American Studies

The Education of Indigenous Children in Latin America: Progress, Challenges and the Historical Outstanding Debt (02.29.24)

Please join on Thursday, February 29, from 5 to 6 PM at the Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road for a lecture by Dina Castro:

The Education of Indigenous Children in Latin America: Progress, Challenges and the Historical Outstanding Debt

Dr. Dina C. Castro is director of the Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being and the inaugural Bahamdan Professor in Early Childhood Well-Being at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her scholarship focuses on equity and quality in the early care and education of bilingual children in immigrant, migrant, and indigenous communities. It is conceptualized at the intersection of language, culture, race, ethnicity, and disability, recognizing the need for interdisciplinary approaches across the fields of early childhood development and education, bilingualism and bilingual education, and special education.

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