Niñas y niños otomíes, actores sociales en la apropiación étnica de la educación escolar indígena

Abstract

In this article we present children’s strategies of ethnic appropriation of the school process through socialization and interaction in an Otomi indigenous context of the Sierra Madre Oriental in Hidalgo, Mexico. Based on ethnographic work, we show how children use cultural repertoires of the carnival festival and work, to elaborate strategies of ethnic appropriation that allow them to re-signify the school education of the indigenous education system in which they live.

Keywords

• indigenous education
• ethnic appropriation
• otomí childhood
• carnival
• labor