1. 13th Inter-American Symposium on Ethnography and Education
“First Years of Teaching Primary Education. Reconstruction of Practices and Experiences in Disadvantaged Contexts”
Alicia L. Carvajal J. UPN-Ajusco (México)
13th Inter-American Symposium on Ethnography and Education

2. Research Beginning Teachers / Novice / Inexperienced
Maximum 5 years of service
Chiapas State:
Three teachers school offering two grades each one
One teacher school offering six grades

3. Mexico/Chiapas

4. Analysis axes Relationships with children, parents and the community,
Conditions that lead them to change to a schoool in a less disadvantage context.
Some questions raised by the new policies for admission and permanence al teaching positions.

6. Getting the job: working in the place and under the conditions the job requires
Admission test.
Unknown and remote places.
Without basic services.

8. Teachers and community: learning how to establish relacionships since the beginning

9. Teachers being received by the community
Place of residence

10. Difficulties Communication and use of the native language
Dealing with loneliness by establishing realtionships with the community}
School hours
Teaching overload
Without company
Being woman in a male dominance situation

11. Changing schools: What the teachers win and wath they lose
Working conditions
Personal aspects: material and family advantages
Differences of children and parents

13. …aNd the new institutional policies?
Admission and permanence
Schools diversity
Learning
How to evalue teaching and learning?

14. Lost objective: Teaching