SIL Publications by Category
Education

And I, In My Turn, Will Pass It On: Knowledge Transmission among the Kayapo by Isabel Murphy, PLE 2, 2004, 235 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-155-8, $30.50

This study provides an in-depth description of Kayapo knowledge transmission. It bridges the disciplines of education and anthropology and expands our knowledge of indigenous processes of education.

Asheninka Stories of Change by Ronald James Anderson, PS 4, 2000, 258 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-102-2, $30.50

The Ashéninka of the Amazon jungle region of east-central Peru confront change from two perspectives: the individual and the sociohistorical. They recall four centuries of change through their stories.

Beyond the Bilingual Classroom: Literacy Acquisition among Peruvian Amazon Communities by Barbara Trudell, PL 172, 1993, 176 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-615-8, $19.00

Presents factors that affect literacy acquisition in both the mother tongue and Spanish by the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon.

Cognition and Learning: A Review of the Literature with Reference to Ethnolinguistic Minorities by Patricia M. Davis, 1991, 90 pp., ISBN 978-0-88312-100-9, $10.00

Applies theories of cognition and learning to cross-cultural education, dealing with developmental and information-processing theories and learning styles.

The In-Between People: Language and Culture Maintenance and Mother-Tongue Education in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Dennis Malone, PLE 3, 2004, 263 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-147-3, $24.95

The In-Between People studies how the Kaugel-speaking people of Papua New Guinea approach the tension that results from the intersection of the old and new cultures.

Language Contact and Composite Structures in New Ireland by Rebecca Sue Jenkins, PLE 4, 2005, 253 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-156-5, $24.95

In this book, the author examines the relationship of indigenous Austronesian languages and the pidgin/creole language, Tok Pisin.

Local Literacies: Theory and Practice by Glenys Waters, 1998, 437 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-038-4 $49.99

Details how to plan and carry out a community literacy project, including tackling the additional barriers of language, culture and logistics in developing countries… a "must" for the pioneering literacy worker.

Reading Is For Knowing: Literacy Acquisition, Retention, and Usage among the Machiguenga by Patricia M Davis, PLE 1, 2004, 332 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-094-0, $35.50

Bilingual schools were initiated at the end of the 1940s among the Machiguenga people of the Peruvian rainforest. This study presents a forty-year chronology of the sociological and educational aspects of the program.