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Show 145 between the two human groups of the country with respect to the conflicts existing between them. In view of this situation, the Peruvian Ministry of Public Education, in August, 1964, started an experimental program based on the use of the vernacular tongue in the education of the monolingual Quechua children. The program includes three years of special instruction in Quechua to thereafter accomplish the learning of Spanish, reading and writing, academic and psychological adaptation, and then the children's incorporation into the second year of regular primary school. Castro de la Fuente, Angelica y Guerrero Araya, Ezequiel. "Promotores agropecuarios y de salubridad," Anuario Indigensita, Vol. XXVIII (December, 1968), pp. 111-114. English Summary: Indianist action is carried out in Mexico and in other countries with the cooperation and help of the so-called promotores. bilingual Indians with a minimum of primary instruction who are trained to carry various aspects of the national culture to their communities of origin. There are promotores in education, health, etc., who, in their majority, are educated in Mexico, in the Primary Boarding Schools for young Indians administered by the Ministry of Public Education. In this article the authors propose the creation of a new type of promotor, in agriculture and stock raising, whose knowledge should be practical and cover such subjects as soil analysis for the simple application of fertilizers, selection of improved seeds, elimination of plagues, crop betterment, care and rational exploitation of forest resources, etc. They also propose the widening of goals for the health promotor who should be entrusted with the conservation and improvement of public health, of communal health and sanitation. Manrique Castaneda, Leonardo. "Algunas consideraciones generales sobre la preparacion del personal para la labor indigenista," Anuario Indigenista, XXVIII (December, 1968) pp. 280-290. English Summary: Emphasis is placed on the fact that personnel participating in Indianist work should be trained specifically for it. There are too many cases of failure or of minor success because the personnel was not really trained to work as a team or because of a lack of awareness (where they are not specialists in the social sciences) of the importance of the cultural and social factors. The training of personnel on three levels is proposed: pre-university, university and post-graduate, with a distinction |