The Secretariat of Public Education of Mexico, through the Directorate General of Indigenous Education, rewarded 50 students in the fifth and sixth year of primary education some weeks ago. The children had won the 16th National Contest Narrations of Indigenous Girls and Boys and Migrants. 743 children participated in it.
The purpose of the contest, explains the Government in a note, is to recover and disseminate the knowledge of the native people and the migrant experiences of the students of indigenous primary education, as well as of those students who are part of the migrant child care service of the National Educational System, through boarding schools.
In this edition, the most participatory one, 743 girls and boys presented in the context stories about “Wise words of fathers and grandfathers”, “Animals”, “Dance”, “Singing or music”, “My best memory is”, and “What does nature teach you?”
The 50 winner texts are written in the 14 indigenous languages: Chontal, Cora, Hñähñú, Mayo, Mazahua, Mixteco, Náhuatl, Tarahumara, Tének, Tepehuano, Totonaco, Triqui, Yaqui, and Zapoteco.
The deputy minister of Basic Education, Javier Treviño Cantú, highlighted, during the prize-giving, that Mexico is a country where around 14 million people who speak 68 languages and 364 dialects, apart from Spanish, live together.
Moreover, the winners received, apart from their award, a bicycle, a tablet containing readable materials, a bag with school materials and toys, a record of the winning texts in the indigenous language and in Spanish, as well as a cultural coexisting event in Mexico City during their stay.
42 teacher of indigenous education and 37 educational centers were also rewarded.
The purpose of the contest, explains the Government in a note, is to recover and disseminate the knowledge of the native people and the migrant experiences of the students of indigenous primary education, as well as of those students who are part of the migrant child care service of the National Educational System, through boarding schools.
In this edition, the most participatory one, 743 girls and boys presented in the context stories about “Wise words of fathers and grandfathers”, “Animals”, “Dance”, “Singing or music”, “My best memory is”, and “What does nature teach you?”
The 50 winner texts are written in the 14 indigenous languages: Chontal, Cora, Hñähñú, Mayo, Mazahua, Mixteco, Náhuatl, Tarahumara, Tének, Tepehuano, Totonaco, Triqui, Yaqui, and Zapoteco.
The deputy minister of Basic Education, Javier Treviño Cantú, highlighted, during the prize-giving, that Mexico is a country where around 14 million people who speak 68 languages and 364 dialects, apart from Spanish, live together.
Moreover, the winners received, apart from their award, a bicycle, a tablet containing readable materials, a bag with school materials and toys, a record of the winning texts in the indigenous language and in Spanish, as well as a cultural coexisting event in Mexico City during their stay.
42 teacher of indigenous education and 37 educational centers were also rewarded.
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