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Lynch, Patrick D. – 1987
National development, a worldwide rationale of mass schooling systems, is both economic and social-integrative and supports the human capital paradigm. The social-integrative objective fosters membership in modern systems of state and money exchange that pull people away from traditional ethnic, cultural, regional, or religious allegiances. This…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Richards, Julia Becker – 1983
To examine the process of language shift (bilingualization) in an area where there is a local dialect equivalent to a "language of solidarity" and a national language equivalent to a "language of power," language interactions in the impoverished village of San Marcos in the highlands of Guatemala were examined. Although Spanish…
Descriptors: Bidialectalism, Bilingualism, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences
Portnoy, Enid J. – 1986
Many health and development programs have been initiated for the rural poor in the world, but few have achieved as strong an association with the cultural values of the people as has Dr. Carroll Behrhorst's work in Guatemala. The two major communication thrusts of his health programs are education of the native population, emphasizing…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Family Health, Foreign Countries, Health Education
Download full textMoneyhun, Clyde – 1994
The autobiography "I, Rigoberta Menchu" is a complicated text--the conditions of its production, the complexity of its subject matter, and the wide range of possible responses among North American readers create challenges for composition students and instructors. A week of taped interviews with Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan Indian…
Descriptors: American Indians, Critical Reading, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries
Kelly, James D. – 1987
This paper attempts to assess the influence of development communication theory on the planning and implementation of technical assistance projects in the Third World that utilize mass communication as an agent of change. Like political development theory, communication theory has often been applied in an ethnocentric manner in less developed…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences
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
