MEXICO
Totlahtol Yoltok
The Totlahtol Yoltok Teachers’ Collective was created in 2013 by secondary and university indigenous teachers belonging to the democratic National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE-SNTE) in the State of Veracruz, Mexico. Their goal is to recover the identity and traditions of the Nahua peoples and challenge the colonization of knowledge that for centuries has affected Mexican children and youth.
A partner since 2017, Totlahtol Yoltok creates alternative pedagogical proposals that recover and promote indigenous identities in the cognitive, cultural and pedagogical areas. Currently the teachers’ collective integrates a team of facilitators to receive training and research alternative proposals for different educational levels, based on an intercultural educational philosophy, which rescues ancestral knowledge by using the community and its members as the basis for content developed in the classroom. Teachers take actions to promote the values behind traditional agriculture, “Living Well” and raise awareness of gender-based violence.
(The teaching model is called Intercultural Inductive Method by Jorge Gasche)
CoDev Program Area: Education — Research and Coalition Building
Canadian partners: BCTF
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