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Heidebrecht, Luke; Balzer, Geraldine – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2020
Global South and Indigenous communities often represent the contexts of international service learning (ISL) programs. However, rarely are the effects of historical colonization and the potential colonizing impact of Global North visitors being investigated. Central to this article is our story as Global North and settler-Canadian researchers who…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Maya (People), Foreign Countries, Postcolonialism
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Rogoff, Barbara – Childhood Education, 2012
Over more than three decades spent researching cultural aspects of how children learn, the author has had the opportunity to learn about how individuals and cultural communities change and continue. During her research on children's learning by observing and "pitching in" in a Mayan community in Guatemala, the author learned a great deal…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Cultural Context, Cultural Background, Foreign Countries
Provasnik, Stephen; Brush, Lorie; Heyman, Cory; Fanning, Marina; Lent, Drew; De Wilde, Johan – 2002
Guatemala's school completion rates are among the lowest in Latin America and are particularly low in rural indigenous areas ravaged by 36 years of civil conflict. In 1997, USAID launched the Girls' Education Activity, known as Proyecto Global in Guatemala, to increase the percentage of girls who complete fifth grade, especially in rural areas and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, American Indian Education, Bilingual Education, Community Attitudes