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Alvarez, Alana – Hispania, 2023
Through her epistolary correspondence and her novel "Ifigenia" (1924), Teresa de la Parra (1889-1936) questions racial stratification systems reminiscent of colonial times and still present in twentieth-century Venezuela. Parra establishes the malleability of racial categories through a moderate racial discourse that intends to…
Descriptors: Novels, Authors, Latin Americans, Whites
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Osiobe, Ejiro U. – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2020
Latin American countries have evolved over the years. Still, after years of military reign, socioeconomicinstability, and civil wars, the region has been known for its anti-hegemonic economic growth (educationalpolicies) strategies. Central and South America's educational system has long been under investigation by researchers both theoretically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Latin Americans, Educational Practices
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Giraldo, Frank; Yan, Xun – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
In this article, we report the results of a study through which we collected English language teachers' needs and wants to design an online language assessment course. Through a mixed-methods approach, we asked 20 teachers from four Latin American countries what they wanted to learn in the course. The teachers wanted a course in which they could…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
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Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; Mendez, María-Eugenia; Valdez-Jiménez, Liliana; Espino, Piero; Olaguez, Eugenia; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Zúñiga, Luz-María; Fonseca-Ramirez, Oscar-Hernan; Alvarez, Maria-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquin; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Rodriguez-Ramirez, Sergio-Esteban; Alvarez-Gomez, Miguel; Cabral-Araiza, Jesus; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2019
The intention of the present paper is to show that people have a series of educational needs in the era of information, so that they can become competent digital citizens. These educational needs are evident in the policies promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, which were well known to Latin American…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Needs, Educational Change, Latin Americans
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Kattan, Raja Bentaouet; Székely, Miguel – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
This study examines recent trends and factors in school dropout at the upper secondary education level across Latin America. The methodology employs repeated cross sections of data to track the life cycle path of cohorts of individuals in 18 countries. A key finding is that while upper secondary enrollment rates increased in the region, dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Cohort Analysis, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
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Montiel-Nava, Cecilia; Chacín, José A.; González-Ávila, Zoila – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Latino children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder later in life, usually with more severe symptoms, and lower IQs, compared with non-Latino children. Possible reasons for such disparities could be due to lower levels of parent education, lower socioeconomic status, limited knowledge of parents about autism spectrum disorder, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Autism, Clinical Diagnosis, Pervasive Developmental Disorders