Interculturality in the Discourse of the Miskito Children in Corn Island

Abstract

In this article, the author begins her examination about interculturality among Miskito children in Corn Island, which are based on ethnographic and linguistic-anthropologic researches that she performed in 2002 and 2003. The transcribed interactions conscientiously disclose how the Miskito children combined the traditional knowledge and the one from the media, as well as the multilinguism and the imaginative game in their everyday speech in Corn Island. It is proposed that the interculturality is not only a pedagogy promoted by regional and transnational institutions, but also a daily communication practice, based on the stories of interaction and exchange. The official interculturality discourse has been a way to negotiate the cultural differences among educational institutions in the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast and other places. Nevertheless, the interculturality practice emerges in daily interaction, which provides native resorts for the dialogue and the identity.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/wani.v59i0.257

Wani No.59 2009 pp.31-49