The present article is part of a thesis of and undergraduate licentiate degree in anthropology: Jewel production and reproduction of culture in Catacaos, defended in 1990. It affirms to the importance of the bond between the traditional forms of social organization and their importance for the productive organization of the artisan jewelry shop, and the patriarchal norm on which is based the authority of the factory and its corresponding social relations. Thus it can be said that it conserves the traditional values of the family that generates the productive confidence in the spouses and the transmission of the technical-productive and commercial knowledge to the spouses, the children and other close friends. Thus they assure work for all. Modernity is represented by the young generations, they but no longer retain this same model of traditional production.

This working paper has been discussed with the headmasters and teachers of six schools in Huaycan. It includes some features of their own Institutional Educational Projects that combined with this papers concepts and their own experiences can be instrumental for them to carry out a situation analysis of the cultural policies that they are implicitly or explicitly promoting. The paper concludes with some questions for reflection.

The present article treats on the survey done in six educative institutions in the locality of Huaycan, on the knowledge and use of Quechua within a scholastic population of these six educative institutions in Huaycan in the district of Ate- Vitarte in the department of Lima. This study is framed in the development of the field work of the investigation on «Multiculturalism and education in Peru» that I come making for my studies from the doctorate in social sciences in the UNMSM. In this occasion I will display the data collected by the work of field.

This sketch describes the intelectual and religious journey of an anthropologist committed to the investigation of the Andean world. The autor present his bibliographical production and his insitutional work.

The present article is part of a thesis of and undergraduate licentiate degree in anthropology: Jewel production and reproduction of culture in Catacaos, defended in 1990. It affirms to the importance of the bond between the traditional forms of social organization and their importance for the productive organization of the artisan jewelry shop, and the patriarchal norm on which is based the authority of the factory and its corresponding social relations. Thus it can be said that it conserves the traditional values of the family that generates the productive confidence in the spouses and the transmission of the technical-productive and commercial knowledge to the spouses, the children and other close friends. Thus they assure work for all. Modernity is represented by the young generations, they but no longer retain this same model of traditional production.

This working paper has been discussed with the headmasters and teachers of six schools in Huaycan. It includes some features of their own Institutional Educational Projects that combined with this papers concepts and their own experiences can be instrumental for them to carry out a situation analysis of the cultural policies that they are implicitly or explicitly promoting. The paper concludes with some questions for reflection.

The present article treats on the survey done in six educative institutions in the locality of Huaycan, on the knowledge and use of Quechua within a scholastic population of these six educative institutions in Huaycan in the district of Ate- Vitarte in the department of Lima. This study is framed in the development of the field work of the investigation on «Multiculturalism and education in Peru» that I come making for my studies from the doctorate in social sciences in the UNMSM. In this occasion I will display the data collected by the work of field.

This sketch describes the intelectual and religious journey of an anthropologist committed to the investigation of the Andean world. The autor present his bibliographical production and his insitutional work.