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Lopez, Cynthia Iris – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Transforming low performing schools to ensure the academic success of Hispanic children situated in poverty remains an educational challenge. External factors impacting student learning are often targeted as the main reasons for poor academic achievement, thereby advancing the culturally deficit model. This study is about an elementary school that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Achievement, Hispanic American Students, Poverty
Tovote, Katrin Erika – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Globally, an increasing number of people migrate from their rural communities to large cities. Despite the pervasive thinking that indigenous communities are solidified in space and strictly conserve cultural traditions, indigenous individuals and families increasingly leave their homelands to set up a new life in an urban environment mostly…
Descriptors: Immigrants, American Indians, Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2011
Countries with underperforming education systems are recognising that effective reform is vital. But what types of programmes are likely to be effective, and how can they be implemented given local norms and conditions? This report focuses on evaluation, assessment and teacher incentives and attempts to answer these important questions for Mexico…
Descriptors: Incentives, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
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Souto-Otero, Manuel – Critical Studies in Education, 2011
The paper contributes to the debate on the implementation of policy reforms developing a typology for implementation based on the initial agreement on means and goals at the time of reform design. It is argued that the volume and nature of knowledge gathering and stakeholder involvement required to gain approval of a policy and avoid the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Zhang, Wenli – International Education Studies, 2009
Superstitious ideas are always in people's life in spite of scientific and technological advancement. Hungry Ghost Festival in China, Halloween in some western countries and Day of the Dead in Mexico are three religious festivals which are observed every year. They reveal people's idea about ghosts and spirits after death. They also include…
Descriptors: Death, Cultural Influences, Asian Culture, Religious Factors
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Espino, Michelle M. – Review of Higher Education, 2012
This article focuses on how critical race theory informed the author's epistemological perspective and methodological approach as she analyzed Mexican American educational narratives and formulated her identity as a scholar. Using a storytelling technique employed in CRT, the author weaves together her position as the translator of participants'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Research, Mexican Americans
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Madrid, E. Michael – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2009
"Dancing with the Devil and Other Stories My Mother Told Me" is an analysis of the history and growth of a popular folktale genre that developed during the 15th century in Mexico and has persisted over time throughout the Southwest. The oral tradition and the telling of folktales are means by which the cultural traditions of people of…
Descriptors: Oral Tradition, Mothers, Religion, Foreign Countries
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Soto, Amanda C. – Music Educators Journal, 2008
Conjunto music is representative of Tejano identity and is an important American musical expression. It is a symbol of a physical and cultural sphere where "Texas Mexicans" have had to "negotiate a life on the border between two countries with different attitudes regarding history, culture, language, economics, and politics.…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Cultural Influences, Mexican Americans, Music Education
O'Brien, Gregory Sean – ProQuest LLC, 2010
U.S. Latino parents are often characterized by educators as uninvolved in school and the formal education of their children because they do not value education. While research indicates otherwise, stereotypes still exist among many educators that one reason Latinos do poorly in school is because they do not care. Masked behind stereotypes is the…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Immigrants, Mexican Americans
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Heredia, Juanita – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2008
The novel "Loving Pedro Infante" by Chicana writer Denise Chavez provides an insightful transcultural feminist critique of Golden Age Mexican cinema culture through a careful examination of gender roles. In the novel, the reception of Pedro Infante's films by spectators bridges generations and national spaces and leads to the formation…
Descriptors: Feminism, Popular Culture, Mexican Americans, Novels
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Anuradha, N. S.; Ramirez Nunez, Jacobo; Hansen, Katrin – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2009
Understanding the influence of culture on education systems is central to the internationalization process of academic programs. In this paper we analyze the effect of societal culture on teaching and learning in the management programs of three educational institutions in Germany, India, and Mexico. We applied of the findings of GLOBE (House et…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences
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Trujillo, Michael L. – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2008
This essay analyzes the historical construction of "Spanish" icons in northern New Mexico and the complex Hispanic and Chicano identities they both evoke and mask. It focuses on the January 1998 vandalism of a statue depicting New Mexico's first Spanish colonial governor, Don Juan de Onate. The removal of the Onate statue's foot…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, American Indians, Mexicans, United States History
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Souto-Manning, Mariana – Childhood Education, 2009
To implement culturally responsive early education that is developmentally appropriate for Latino children, it is important to look at values that permeate education in Latin America. Therefore, the author draws on ethnographic data (interviews, observations, artifacts, and field notes) from early childhood centers and schools in Mexico, Brazil…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Foreign Countries, Latin Americans
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De Genova, Nicholas – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2008
Crime and street violence often evoke racialized discourses about urban space. In this ethnographic research in Chicago, however, the disdain that many Mexican migrants articulated about street gangs principally concerned issues "internal" to the Mexican/Chicano community, notably a profound ambivalence about U.S.-born Mexicans and a…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Immigrants, Mexicans, Mexican Americans
Mijangos-Noh, Juan Carlos; Romero-Gamboa, Fabiola – Online Submission, 2008
In this paper we present our study of the use of Mayan and Spanish in nine groups of pupils in bilingual elementary schools in the Mayan area of the Yucatan State, Mexico. Michael Cole's, as well as Guillermo Bonfil's, perspectives were used for the data analysis, in the sense of considering language as a cultural artifact, and an element of…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Elementary Schools, Maya (People), Educational Change
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