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Swenson, Mary, Comp.; Austin, Jane, Comp. – 1992
This simulation exercise requires participants to practice critical thinking, problem solving, and negotiating skills as they role play real-life conflicts concerning working conditions in a factory in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Participants also learn about Guatemala's history, its social, economic, and political status as of April 1994. Based on…
Descriptors: Clothing, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Global Education
Peer reviewedSommers, Meredith – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1994
Maintains that, as socioeconomic systems fail to address inequity, the power and wealth of the rich increase at the expense of the poor. Discusses social inequities and violations of human rights in Guatemalan society. Describes a simulation based on Guatemalan textile factories. (CFR)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Employed Women, Empowerment, Foreign Countries
Gage, Susan – 1991
Dialogue and illustrations trace the history of the first peoples of South, Central, and North America and encourage students to look at past and present patterns of colonialism and to view colonialism from the perspective of the colonized. Chapter 1 critiques Columbus 500 years after founding the first colony in the Americas. Chapter 2 presents…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Colonialism, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Download full textSommers, Meredith; And Others – 1993
This educational packet is produced as a tribute to Guatemalan activist and Nobel Peace prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu, and in honor of the Year of Indigenous People, 1993, as declared by the United Nations. The core of the packet is a simulation exercise based on an indigenous family in a Guatemalan village on the day the Peace prize was…
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Liberties, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness
