Ana Carolina Hecht

Professor Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters Universidad de Buenos Aires

Carolina Hecht is dedicated to the anthropology of education and linguistics, focusing on the research-production of educational and sociolinguistic problems of Toba/qom indigenous children and youth in contexts of diversity and inequality in Argentina.

She is an associate researcher at CONICET and directs the project “Linguistic socialization in intercultural educational contexts. Study on the maintenance-displacement of the Toba language in the school trajectories of its speakers”.

Dr. Ana Carolina Hecht will guide the Will someone please think of the children? The challenges of thinking through diverse contemporary childhoods in Latin America workshop together with Gabriela Piña fron Centro de Estudios Interculturales e Indígenas