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Direct linkDavid W. Barillas Chon – Urban Education, 2024
This study examines how three recently arrived Indigenous male migrant youth from Guatemala and Mexico in an urban high school in the Pacific Northwest understood and employed Spanish and English to navigate racialized and languaged interactions. Utilizing a Critical Latinx Indigeneities framework, findings from this study show that Spanish is a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Males, Migrants
Cedeño, Stephanie M. – School Social Work Journal, 2021
Throughout the migratory process, unaccompanied minors from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras--countries known as the Northern Triangle of Central America--are at great risk for exposure to adverse experiences, loss, and stressors that can have negative consequences on their mental health and well-being. Although the limited research with…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Adolescents, Latin Americans, Grief
Linares, Rebecca E. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
Centering the literacy practice of a newly arrived, transnational, emergent multilingual student, the author provides insights into how these students, particularly when positioned as lacking literacy and content knowledge when labeled as students with interrupted formal education, might benefit socioemotionally and educationally from the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Adolescents, Immigrants, Latin Americans
Barillas Chón, David W. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2021
This essay explores how stories of Tecum, Maya K'iche' warrior, and the quetzal can serve as creative entry points to contextualize the racialization and ideological positioning in Guatemala of Maya migrant youth who are now in U.S. schools. As we work on radicalizing possibilities and re-imagining liberatory futures, our efforts lie in crafting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Hispanic American Students, Experience
Download full textLugo-Armenta, Jesús Guadalupe; Pino-Fan, Luis Roberto – Education Sciences, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic generated a new scenario in education, where technological resources mediate teaching and learning processes. This paper presents the development of a virtual teacher training experience aimed at promoting inferential reasoning in practicing and prospective mathematics teachers using inference problems on the Chi-square…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Statistical Inference, Probability, Thinking Skills
Blevins, Benjamin; Ramírez, Guadalupe C.; Wight, Jonathan B. – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2020
Using a case study, this paper explores the pedagogy and logistical best practices of leading short-term study trips to the indigenous highlands of Guatemala. The goals of community-engagement are to have students: 1) interact with people of different cultural, linguistic, political, and economic world views, expanding their range of…
Descriptors: Program Length, Study Abroad, Service Learning, Best Practices
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
Dyrness, Andrea – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2016
This article explores the role and meaning of auto-formación (self-formation) in the making of feminist, activist identities among Latin American activist women in Madrid, Spain. I argue that auto-formación, a collective process of self-recovery and consciousness-raising that is shared by third world feminists around the world, allows migrant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Feminism, Latin Americans
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
Ward, Thomas – Hispania, 2012
Much has been written about "indianismo" and "indigenismo" and their literary and social meaning, but rarely have these two "criollo" movements been positioned face to face with actual Indigenous expression. This article attempts a preliminary pass at just such an approach by comparing four indigenous themes…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Latin Americans, Writing (Composition), Foreign Policy
Speizer, Ilene S.; Goodwin, Mary; Whittle, Lisa; Clyde, Maureen; Rogers, Jennifer – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2008
Objective: The prevalence of sexual abuse during childhood or adolescence varies depending on the definitions and age categories used. This study examines the first national, population-based data available on child sexual abuse that occurs before age 15 in three countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. This study uses comparable…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Females, Violence
Dunn, Marianne G.; O'Brien, Karen M. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2009
This study examined the relative contributions of (a) gender, (b) perceived stress, (c) social support from family and significant other, and (d) positive and negative dimensions of religious coping to the prediction of the psychological health and meaning in life among 179 Central American immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala. Findings…
Descriptors: Coping, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Support Groups, Foreign Countries
Poppema, Margriet – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2009
The Guatemalan educational system has been the most unequal system in the Latin American region ever since the 1950s. The indigenous Maya people, who constitute around half of the population, experienced the state mainly through repression, exploitative labour relationships and exclusion from education. The return to democracy and the peace…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Democracy, Educational Objectives, Maya (People)
Wasserman, Paul; Schaeffer, Dolores – Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, 1982
Reviews the historical and contemporary social situation of the indigenous peoples of Guatemala and Nicaragua, including the current conflict between the Sandinista government and the Miskitu Indians. (GC)
Descriptors: Activism, American Indians, Cultural Traits, Foreign Countries
Neeson, Eileen; And Others – 1987
This curriculum guide presents materials for teaching about Central America and emphasizes the concepts of environment, culture, interdependence, and citizenship. The guide is designed to integrate the study of geographic, economic, historic, political, and social features of Central American nations. The major theme of the document deals with how…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Charts, Course Content, Curriculum Guides
