Perspectives on rights, resistance, and resilience from Indigenous adult literacy learners in Mexico

Date:: Friday 28th October 2022
Time:: 5pm-6pm
Venue:: Online via Zoom

The 21st century has brought about rapid changes across political, economic, environmental, cultural, and social landscapes. Within these changing contexts, the enduring social and educational inequalities amongst Indigenous peoples—represented by many distinct social and cultural groups around the world—remains a significant global challenge.

In this seminar based on her award-winning doctoral research, Dr Sanchez Tyson will explore the role and meaning of literacy within the context of an Indigenous language educational model for adults in Mexico and discuss how processes and spaces of learning remains sites of negotiation, contestation, exclusion/inclusion, resistance, and opportunity.

The seminar will be of interest to those who are interested in further discussing and addressing issues of structural inequalities, learner agency, and the diversity and politics of Indigenous knowledges and ontologies in Latin America and the global South.

Speaker

Dr Lorena Sanchez Tyson

Dr Lorena Sanchez Tyson, AFHEA is a Research Fellow for the Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate (Climate-U) at IOE, University College London and an Associate Tutor for the MA Global Education and International Development at the University of Warwick.

Her PhD at IOE, University College London received the Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation from the Comparative and International Education Society.

Her research and teaching centres on Indigenous education, critical pedagogy, lifelong learning, and education for sustainable development, with a particular focus on Latin America.