This month, NYU professor Miryam Yataco brings to our attention artist and educator, Wari Zárate. Wari is a Quechua-speaking Peruvian from Ayacucho, who is an expert in Intercultural and Bilingual Pedagogy in the Andes.
He has worked with both bilingual and monolingual Quechua-speaking children in Ayacucho and with the children of Andean migrants living in Lima.
One of Wari's research projects concerns the children of Andean weavers. Through his project, the children transfer their tactile weaving skills to reading and writing tasks in school.
This process invites the use of the children's out of school knowledge and experience as a bridge or scaffold to school-based literacy. Scholar Luis Moll characterizes this pedagogical method as drawing on students' funds of knowledge.'
For a biography and information on Wari Zárate's projects, go to:
For information on his art and human rights work, visit
- http://www.ach.lit.ulaval.ca/Registro/Wari_Zarate/DDHH.html
- http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=HBH-Yh8SN2c Self Portrait of Wari Zárate
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Fuente: Metropolitan Center for Urban Education
New York State Spanish BETAC