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Education Tensions Among the Bribri

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In the present transcribed, edited and annotated talk, ethnologist Alí García Segura, a member of the Bribri community of Coroma, delivers an important message exposing the contradictions of the educational system that result from the encounter of cultures. He aims to be the voice of those before him who were not heard, and his discussion invites us to rethink the role of official education in indigenous communities.

A. García Segura is the author of the original talk. M. Ortega-Rodríguez and H. Solís-Sánchez were responsible for transcribing, translating, editing and annotating the talk, including the vignettes; their comments appear within square brackets.

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  1. Escuela de Filología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

    Alí García Segura

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Correspondence to Alí García Segura .

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  1. Physics Department, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

    Manuel Ortega-Rodríguez

  2. Physics Department, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

    Hugo Solís-Sánchez

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García Segura, A. (2019). Education Tensions Among the Bribri. In: Ortega-Rodríguez, M., Solís-Sánchez, H. (eds) Costa Rican Traditional Knowledge According to Local Experiences. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06146-3_10

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