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Constantino, Giuseppe; And Others – 1985
A seven-year project developing and testing cuento therapy, a form of child psychotherapy in which Puerto Rican mothers recount to their children folktales taken from Puerto Rican culture, is described and evaluated in this monograph. Chapter 1 explains how the research presented in later chapters fits into substantially broader patterns of…
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Emotional Disturbances, Folk Culture
Padilla, Raymond V., Ed.; Chavez, Rudolfo Chavez, Ed. – 1995
Authors represented in this collection challenge the hegemony that is fostered and maintained by the colleges and universities in which these Latino professors function daily. Each of the writers presents the reality of survival in academia. Collectively, these narratives are connected by themes of personal struggle, marginality, and valuing the…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Ethnicity
DeStigter, Todd – 2001
Based on more than three years of in-depth research, this book tells the stories of a small group of Latino and Latina students attending a predominantly White high school in a rural area of southeast Michigan. The book takes readers inside the hallways and classrooms of Addison High and into the homes and neighborhoods of Spanish-speaking…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cultural Context, Diversity (Student), Educational Anthropology
Hall, Horace R. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
This book investigates the value of school-based mentoring (SBM) in the lives of adolescent African America and Latino males and offers alternative, more positive ways in which society can embrace them. Understanding that mentoring is a cultural practice, this book informs schools and communities of the roles and responsibilities that they have in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Class Activities, School Counseling
Villasenor, Victor – 1994
This book contains memoirs about growing up as the son of Mexican immigrants in rural California, as well as stories that the author's parents told him about their childhoods and village life in Mexico. In a preface and introductory stories, the immigrant explains how his family culture sustained him during bad experiences in school, and describes…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Autobiographies, Early Experience, Family History
Vigil, Angel – 1996
This collection of 14 folk drama scripts is drawn from the Hispanic culture and traditions of the American Southwest and designed for use in educational settings. The plays are short, simple, and easy to produce. A single play can fill a class period, while several plays grouped together would make a school assembly. Six plays, intended for grades…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Drama, Elementary Education, Fables
Lobb, Nancy – 1995
The lives of many Hispanic Americans have made a difference in the story of America. Hispanic Americans are people whose families can be traced to the Spanish speaking countries. At the time of the 1990 census, there were 22,400,000 Hispanic Americans in the United States. They should be proud of their heritage, and should recognize the…
Descriptors: Achievement, Biographies, Census Figures, Childrens Literature
Villanueva, Victor, Jr. – 1993
Presenting a look at how racism works to inhibit academic achievement by limiting academic opportunities, this personal narrative weaves stories from an individual's life with an examination of research and popular thought on language use, literacy, and intelligence among people of color. The narrative considers the personal experiences of an…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Hispanic Americans
Rogler, Lloyd H.; And Others – 1983
Literature on the mental health of Hispanics is reviewed in this book, which is organized according to a conceptual framework encompassing clinical service research. The book's division into five main sections reflects the five phases of the framework, which span the sequence beginning when a person experiences mental or emotional distress and…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Health Services, Hispanic Americans, Medical Research
Penalosa, Fernando – 1980
This work is an attempt to synthesize the findings of the multi-disciplinary research on various aspects of Chicanos' use of their two languages, Spanish and English. After an introduction on notions of language, speech, and sociology, the text covers nine aspects of the question: (1) historical background on the relations between the English and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Cultural Interrelationships, English, Hispanic American Culture
York, Sherry – 2002
This comprehensive guide includes background and publication information about picture books for children and adolescents by Latino authors, summaries of titles and bibliographical information on the authors, illustrators, and translators. The picture books suggested in the guide cover a variety of different subjects, including families, holidays,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Authors, Elementary Secondary Education
Paratore, Jeanne R.; Melzi, Gigliana; Krol-Sinclair, Barbara – 1999
This book is a detailed account of the effects of parental involvement in a literacy project on Latino children's academic performance, addressing methods of parent participation, home literacy uses by children, and the nature of school experiences. The first two chapters provide family literacy and Intergenerational Literacy Project background…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Diversity (Student), Elementary Education, Family English Literacy
Urciuoli, Bonnie – 1996
This book is about language prejudice as experienced by Puerto Ricans in the mainland United States. Prejudice is expressed as social signs that include, but go well beyond, language. When people express linguistic prejudices, they generally start by objectifying the languages in question as though the languages were sharply defined. For Puerto…
Descriptors: Bias, Cultural Differences, English, Hispanic Americans
Garza, Hedda – 1994
The term "Latinas" encompasses many different groups of women. Despite the disparities among the cultures of their countries of origin, Spanish-speaking peoples have been lumped as "Hispanics," and later "Latinos," in the United States. The Latino group is rapidly becoming the largest minority population in the United…
Descriptors: Achievement, Civil Rights, Cultural Differences, Cultural Images
Munoz, Victoria I. – 1995
Using an innovative framework, a psychology of identity is explored by incorporating an analysis of the cultural, historical, and political context of youths from different regions of Puerto Rico. Interviews with 56 Puerto Rican youths who were either studying to work at something they felt strongly about, working at something they loved, or…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Dropouts
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