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North, Connie E. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2010
In March 2009, the author accompanied 19 university students to El Paso, Texas, for an alternative spring break (ASB). The author and the students traveled to the urban zip code with the lowest per capita income in the country to study U.S.-Mexico border issues. In the ASB program's language, they sought to gain "new perspectives on social…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Community Needs, Student Diversity, Foreign Countries
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Blum, Denise; de la Piedra, Maria Teresa – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2010
This article examines the use of Critical Race Pedagogy in two service-learning initiatives that prepare pre-service teachers for working with an increasing immigrant student population in California and Texas. It is not uncommon for teachers to participate in the "Othering" dominant discourse that tends to see those who are of a lower…
Descriptors: Non English Speaking, Immigrants, Story Telling, Service Learning
Gladwin, Ransom – Online Submission, 2010
This study used oral survey methods to examine first the diversity of Meso-American languages and second the potential language maintenance or loss of these languages among Meso-American language speakers in Wiregrass country (North Florida-South Georgia). Language shift, the process of gradually changing from one first language to another first…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Language Maintenance, Surveys, Questionnaires
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Robles, Jannell – Harvard Educational Review, 2009
In this essay, Jannell Robles explores and discusses some common themes found in her experiences as a Latina undergraduate student. During the summer of 2008, she conducted fieldwork in a rural town in Mexico. Her experiences as the only Latina student on this trip were similar to her experiences at her university and those discussed by Latina…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Municipalities, Foreign Countries, Social Scientists
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Ashcroft, Judy; Alanis, Felipe – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2008
The integration of children whose first language is not English into public school systems is an issue that many states must confront and is particularly critical in Texas. The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) has led the way in addressing the needs of learners and schools by developing an innovative program, Language Learners at the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Higher Education, Bilingual Education, Secondary Education
Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2008
This article discusses the growing interest of scholars studying the connections between Asian and Hispanic populations and cultures. Scholars examining transnational communities and relationships often fend off skepticism from peers in longer-established, clearly defined academic disciplines who wonder about the relevancy of their pursuits,…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Hispanic Americans, Higher Education, Stranger Reactions
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McConnell, Eileen Diaz; Miraftab, Faranak – Rural Sociology, 2009
For more than a century, communities across the United States legally employed strategies to create and maintain racial divides. One particularly widespread and effective practice was that of "sundown towns," which signaled to African Americans and others that they were not welcome within the city limits after dark. Though nearly 1,000…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Municipalities, Racial Segregation, Residential Patterns
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Langer, Philip; Escamilla, Kathy; Aragon, Lorenso – Bilingual Research Journal, 2010
Students participated in a 2-week intensive program in the city of Puebla, Mexico. The experience included university course work, cultural field trips, and teaching and observing in Mexican elementary schools. It also included many opportunities to interact and participate in daily life in Puebla. The study examined changes in attitudes about…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Teacher Effectiveness, Graduate Study, Cultural Pluralism
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Holmes, Malcolm D.; Smith, Brad W.; Freng, Adrienne B.; Munoz, Ed A. – Crime & Delinquency, 2008
Numerous studies have examined political influences on communities' allocations of fiscal and personnel resources to policing. Rational choice theory maintains that these resources are distributed in accordance with the need for crime control, whereas conflict theory argues that they are allocated with the aim of controlling racial and ethnic…
Descriptors: Proximity, Crime, Police, Law Enforcement
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Perez, Frank G.; Ortega, Carlos F. – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2008
In 1988, the El Paso, Texas, city council accepted a proposal to build twelve statues of historically important individuals as part of a downtown revitalization initiative. Juan de Onate was selected as the centerpiece statue of the XII Travelers Memorial of the Southwest. The decision to honor the Spanish colonizer triggered a local controversy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Expression, City Government, Art Products
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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
Teliz Triujeque, Rosalia – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The major purpose of the study was to determine the construct validity of the Spanish version of the Emotional Skills Assessment Process (ESAP) in a targeted population of agriculture college students in Mexico. The ESAP is a self assessment approach that helps students to identify and understand emotional intelligence skills relevant for…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), College Students, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Tupa, Megan; McFadden, Ledyard – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
Brownsville Independent School District in Texas garnered the Broad Prize for Urban Education in 2008 by narrowing the gap between its largely immigrant Hispanic enrollment and other low-income children in the state. Its efforts are notable for the district's ability to move English language learners to proficiency in a few years by its reliance…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Second Language Learning, Instructional Leadership, Urban Education
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O'Leary, Anna Ochoa; Gonzalez, Norma E.; Valdez-Gardea, Gloria Ciria – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2008
In this article, we attempt to map out the "in-between" space between global and cultural narratives that mediates women's educational trajectories. Case studies of women living on the U.S.-Mexico border make visible these spaces, sites of "practices of emergence": the practices that emerge from incommensurable economic demands…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Hispanic Americans
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Sanchez, Patricia – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2007
The data in this article comes from a larger 3-year ethnographic study that examines the transnational immigrant lives of second-generation Latina youth whose families reside in northern California and maintain close ties to small rural communities in western Mexico. In the course of the study, three bilingual youth and I developed a participatory…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Ethnography, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
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