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Cassiani-Miranda, Carlos Arturo; Campo-Arias, Adalberto; Álvarez-Solorza, Isabel – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2022
The brief Francis scale of attitude towards Christianity (Francis-4) psychometric performance in Mexico is unknown. The objective was to evaluate the dimensionality, homogeneity, gender differential item functioning (DIF), and nomological validity of Francis-4. 1,108 university students between 18 and 60 years of age were evaluated; 80.4% were…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Student Attitudes, Christianity, College Students
Verónica Fernández Espinosa; Jorge López González – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2024
There is a deficit in character education research in Latin America and a lack of clarity about conceptual issues relevant to values and virtues. This lack of conceptual clarity has practical importance. The research sought to investigate empirically how school managers and teachers understand and practice character education, with particular…
Descriptors: Ethics, Values Education, Foreign Countries, Administrator Attitudes
María José Gómez Ruiz; Lourdes Giannina Orejel Orejel; Montserrat Salomón Ferrer – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2024
The Humanities Institute of Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara (Mexico), has carefully crafted its own reading canon by incorporating in to its course design a learning outcomes framework that mirrors its Christian institutional mission. The paper presents an overview of this framework and of its implementation within the University's Gen Ed…
Descriptors: Humanities, Christianity, Religious Education, Universities
Hashimoto, Brett James – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
Modern vocabulary size tests are generally based on the notion that the more frequent a word is in a language, the more likely a learner will know that word. However, this assumption has been seldom questioned in the literature concerning vocabulary size tests. Using the Vocabulary of American-English Size Test (VAST) based on the Corpus of…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Altherr Flores, Jenna Ann; Hou, Dongchen; Diao, Wenhao – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2020
English is often assumed to be the national language in the US and the global language in the world; yet such views fail to address the complex linguistic repertoires of people living in linguistically heterogeneous places even within the US. Spotlighting a southwestern US border town, we provide a critique of both nation-state-language ideology,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Official Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Espericueta, José – Hispania, 2015
In his "Relación de Texcoco," Juan Bautista de Pomar (c. 1535-90) takes a political and moral stance against Spanish colonialism in Texcoco and the entire viceroyalty of New Spain. Responding to the "Instrucción y memoria's" (1577) request for information about the history and cultural practices of local populations, Pomar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mexicans, History, Foreign Policy
Madero, Cristobal – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2018
The preparation, convocation, and implementation of the Second Vatican Council sparked changes at theological and organisational levels in the Catholic church. Both types of changes created a new structure for the relationship of different elements within the church and between the church and the world. This was not the first time the Catholic…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Catholics, Christianity, Clergy
Baca, Damian – College English, 2009
In 1992, more than 20 artists showcased their work in a traveling exhibit, "Chicano Codex: Encountering Art of the Americas." Each piece creatively resembled Mesoamerican amoxtli, the pictographic "codex books" that were destroyed by European combatants as a strategy for subjugating indigenous minds. Spain's campaign of…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Land Settlement, Rhetorical Criticism, Foreign Countries
Sneider, Leah – American Indian Quarterly, 2012
Arming themselves with "manifest destiny" rhetoric, which claimed divine Anglo-Saxon superiority as justification for the conquest of Indigenous and Mexican peoples and the land they occupied, white settlers forcefully pushed into California territory. The two-year-long Mexican-American War resulted in the acquisition of the present-day…
Descriptors: United States History, Tribes, Autobiographies, American Indians
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

Robles, Maria Christlieb – NAMTA Journal, 1999
Illustrates how the spread of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd in work with the Totonaca people of the Mexican states of Veracruz and Puebla indicates the universality of Montessori pedagogical principles and the power of the parable method of teaching within a culture with a strong oral tradition. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Adults, Christianity, Foreign Countries, Montessori Method

Palmer, Colin A. – Journal of World History, 1995
Asserts that scholarship on the formative period of the African presence in the Americas is still in its infancy. Explores the role of ethnicity in the construction of the lives of African-born slaves in Mexico City during the early 1600s. Discusses implications of the findings, including the impact of ethnicity on marriage choices. (CFR)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Black Achievement, Black Culture