Abstract

This article shows those educative values used in teaching mapuche children and teenagers through the kimche speech. A critical analysis of their speech is made on the basis of respect and affection categories. The hypothesis is that the kimche speech contains the foundations, values and purposes of mapuche education. Therefore, the aim is, on one hand, to identity those values in the frame of mapuche speech and social memory which support that knowledge. On the other hand, to show the perception they have about schooling process of mapuche students. The sample is composed by kimches of the following territorialities: Lafquenche, Nagche, Huilliche and Huenteche. © 2007 Universidad Austral de Chile Facultad de Filosof y Humanidades.