Zapatismo y educación autónoma: De la rebelión a la dignidad indígena

Abstract

From the late '90s, the Mayan communities belonging to the Zapatista autonomous municipalities of Chiapas are implementing the right of indigenous peoples to build and manage their schools according to their own modes of internal organization. This means that families of militants have the ability to select, train and evaluate the bilingual educator. In the daily routine of their educational rebellion, the support bases of the Zapatista movement in the rural area of the valley of the Lacandon Jungle are committed internally through the practices of assembly and delegations of community posts. In opposition to the centralization of national Indian policy, communitarian organizing of the autonomous education helps to strengthen the collective dignity of direct actors, who are proud to be able to build and get their hands on local control of formal education in the rebels' territories in southeastern Mexico.