Empowering rural children and community through collaborative design of learning activities

Abstract

Rural schools in the Peruvian Andes are attended by indigenous children belonging to Andean communities that have an ancestral culture and different perspective of the world. In the last decade, results of national tests have shown a rural educational achievement gap. In order to overcome this problem, the government has created different projects. However, the academic gap has continued to increase; moreover, rural communities are concerned about the kind of education that is being offered, which is neither contextualized nor fits the commu...