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Paolantonio, Mario Di – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
Recently, a few buildings within the "Espacio para la memoria" in Buenos Aires have been designated as a UNESCO Centre where, amongst other educational activities, evidentiary materials of the past repression are to be stored and displayed. Another building in the complex houses a Community Centre operated by the Mothers of the Plaza de…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art, Exhibits, Memory
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Cabieses, Baltica; Espinoza, Manuel – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2012
Chile is facing a major intellectual revolution: organised college students are arguing for the most significant educational reform since the period of dictatorship (1973-1990). Thousands of high-school and university students have refused to go to lessons since early June 2011, calling for better and more affordable education and an end to a…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Conflict, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Esqueda, Octavio J. – Christian Higher Education, 2007
This article provides a summary of the Cuban Revolution and its implications and consequences for Christian higher education in Cuba. Christian institutions experienced the same oppression from the communist revolution as the rest of the evangelical denominations during the sixties and seventies. The worst period for Protestantism began in 1965…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Systems, Conflict, Christianity
Simon, Joel – Native Peoples, 1995
Since January 1993, almost 5,000 Mayan refugees have returned to Guatemala from Mexican camps to which they had fled in the 1980s following army massacres and destruction of villages. The refugees overcame historical differences among 22 Mayan ethnic groups, forged a Pan-Mayan unity, and, with international support, persuaded the Guatemalan…
Descriptors: Activism, American Indians, Conflict, Foreign Countries
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Novoa, Adriana – Social Education, 2007
It can be a challenge to introduce students to a world region with the cultural diversity and rich history of Latin America. In this article, the author suggests four thematic units that enable teachers to identify both general trends and important differences in the region: (1) race/ethnicity; (2) progress and civilization; (3) conflict and…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Latin American History, Science Curriculum
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Zontek, Kenneth S. – Social Studies, 1996
Presents a teaching model that allows students to recognize, synthesize, and analyze characteristics and components of colonialism. Identifies and provides examples for five main types of colonial interaction: subjugation, coexistence, extermination, reservation, and combination. Applies this model to the case study of the Spanish in New Mexico.…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Colonialism, Conflict, Cultural Interrelationships