Datel Wins Best of MaFLA Award!
Senior Lecturer in Spanish María Datel’s talk at the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association has been judged “Best of MaFLA” and as a result she has been invited to develop a talk for NECTFL 2022 in February in New York City. María spoke on “Integrating Indigenous Perspectives into the Spanish Curriculum.”
In her talk, Datel said, “Decolonizing the curriculum includes representing the voices excluded from hegemonic narratives. There are 50 million indigenous people in Latin America, whose knowledge production is valuable and can present alternatives to addressing contemporary issues. This session explores how instructors can integrate indigenous perspectives into the Spanish curriculum to develop intercultural competence.”