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Sena, Rachel; Schoorman, Dilys; Bogotch, Ira – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2013
Sister R., the first author, is a Dominican Sister of Peace. Until recently, Sister R. had been the director of the Maya Ministry Family Literacy Program, working with the Maya Community in Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, Florida. She described her work with these indigenous, preliterate, hardworking peoples as "a university of the poor"…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Instructional Leadership, Immigrants, Hispanic Americans
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Schoorman, Dilys; Zainuddin, Hanizah – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2008
Educators in the field of "family literacy" have identified multiple approaches to family literacy programs (FLPs), and have underscored the need to identify and make explicit the philosophical orientations of their own programs. This was the task undertaken in this article, which focused on a FLP in south Florida that served the needs…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Maya (People), Empowerment, Educational Practices