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Students have begun to feel identified with the Quechua Norteno thanks to the work of a young teacher EIB, scholarship of scholarship 18 of the pronabec.He made his students identify with the Andean culture of their parents and grandparents. Edwin Lucero Rinza is a teacher at the I.E. 11049 Sigues - Kanaris, in the province of Ferrenafe, Lambayeque region. When he arrived at this institution, in 2023, girls and boys in the fourth grade of primary school were not represented by their Quechua culture. Not only did they not speak their parents language, but they even rejected to dress with the traditional clothes of their community.
The girls were ashamed to wear this dress because they said they were discriminated against by their classmates. (Pronabec), of the Ministry of Education.
The changes were not immediate. Before, Edwin had to teach them what science, philosophy and art that are part of the Andean culture - aspects that, they say, are not mentioned much, but that are lived and express in silence.
I started talking about the traditional clothing of the community, their importance, their cultural and pedagogical value. At first, I focused on Lliklla, he explains. He prepared classes in which he addressed the mathematical designs present in these blankets - what is known as ethnomathematics - as well as the embroidery representing nature. All that mathematical knowledge is expressed in Lliklla, he says. At the same time, and although at the beginning they did not want to teach them Quechua, the language originally from their families.
Edwin especially recalls a conversation among his students. One of them said: Kanan Rukitu Nimashunllapa (Now they will tell us that we are old for using the lliklla); And another replied: Impaq Pinkakuyanchik, Culturanchik (Why do we have to feel shame, if it is part of our culture?).
At that time I was proud to have managed to identify, value and love their culture, says pronabec fellow. But he knew that, to achieve real change, he had to set the example. And he did so: he started using Poncho and Llanki (flip flops). He also convinced his male colleagues to join, while women women began to dress with Anuku (Pollera), Lliklla and shirt. Not only on Mondays, during training, but every day of the week, as part of the school routine.
Scholarship 18 gave us a translator and interpreter of Quechua Kanaris
This story would not have been possible if Edwin had not studied bilingual intercultural education (EIB). Initially, he wanted to follow the law career, but seeing that scholarship 18 offered him the opportunity to study at a University of Lima, he did not hesitate and embarked on this new adventure.
The road was not easy. He had to face many academic challenges to maintain good grades at the university. But when his classmates from other regions made him notice the peculiarity of Quechua he spoke - his musicality, his intonation -, he convinced he had to continue on the path of teaching.
Quechua Kanaris is not so well known. The most common is to listen to Quechua Collao, Chanka or the center.
Edwin not only successfully culminated EIBs career at the San Ignacio de Loyola University (USIL) thanks to scholarship 18, but is currently the only interpreter and translator accredited by Quechua Kanaris, of the Ministry of Culture. He also began writing poetry and organizing events to spread Quechua. He conducted a masters degree in Bilingual Intercultural Education at the National University of San Marcos, and has published the book Runapa Nawin, considered the first written literary work in Quechua Norteno.
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