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Download full textSolares Rojas, Armando; Preciado Babb, Armando Paulino; Peña, Fredy; Ortiz, Andrea; Rosas, Marisol Sandova; Velasco, Remedios Soriano; Vázquez, Vicente Carrión; Fuentes, Mauricio Farrugia – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2018
Throughout the years, Mathematical Modeling has gained international attention, not only in research but also in the development of curricula and its applications in the classroom. However, systematic literary surveys are scarce. In this paper, we present some findings from a survey of 485 international publications related to different aspects of…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Mathematical Models, Periodicals, Latin Americans
Jennifer Melissa García-Dávila; Wulfrano Arturo Luna-Ramírez – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
Mexico is a country where seismic events occur in a daily basis. Since 1990, the national seismological service has reported various earthquakes, in some cases they usually imperceptible, it doesn't ensure that the population cannot be injured, there for, it is important to keep the entire population informed and prepared in the event of an…
Descriptors: Video Games, Natural Disasters, Teaching Methods, Masters Programs
Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; Mendez, María-Eugenia; Valdez-Jiménez, Liliana; Espino, Piero; Olaguez, Eugenia; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Zúñiga, Luz-María; Fonseca-Ramirez, Oscar-Hernan; Alvarez, Maria-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquin; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Rodriguez-Ramirez, Sergio-Esteban; Alvarez-Gomez, Miguel; Cabral-Araiza, Jesus; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2019
The intention of the present paper is to show that people have a series of educational needs in the era of information, so that they can become competent digital citizens. These educational needs are evident in the policies promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, which were well known to Latin American…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Needs, Educational Change, Latin Americans
Hunter-Johnson, Yvonne; Newton, Norissa – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
Within recent years, there has been a trend of students (traditional and nontraditional) travelling abroad, more particularly to the United States, with the view of pursuing higher education at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Among the most popular influential factors to obtain higher education internationally are government and private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Latin Americans, Transformative Learning
Fernández, Susana S. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper will present and discuss the linguistic challenges that Argentinian university students of history and Danish university students of Spanish met during the course of a telecollaboration project based on synchronous communication in Skype. The purpose of this discussion is to identify linguistic pitfalls and the solutions adopted by both…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Latin American History, Spanish Literature, Synchronous Communication
Pinder, Patrice Juliet – Online Submission, 2014
Ogbu and Simon's (1998) and Ogbu's (2003) cultural-ecological theoretical framework postulates that voluntary immigrants, those who chose to migrate to a new land, would perform well academically because of their perceived beliefs that they could get a good education and could succeed more in their "new" land of opportunity than in their…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Immigrants, Academic Achievement, Blacks
Direct linkYulita, Leticia – Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) (NJ3), 2010
While it is generally accepted that literature fosters (inter)cultural learning, few qualitative studies have sought to understand in what ways interculturality is developed. This article investigates the development of Spanish L2 students' intercultural awareness through the reading of a short story entitled "Norma y Ester" by Argentine…
Descriptors: Action Research, Sex Stereotypes, Second Language Learning, Literature Appreciation
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2011
The article shows how mind-mapping software can be used to help premedical students learn, apply and relate terminology sharing Greek and Latin roots. Mind-mapping software use a center, branches, and sub-branches to show connections between Greek and Latin roots generated on the mind map. Instruction with the mind-mapping software goes through…
Descriptors: Greek, Latin, Morphemes, Phonology
Tristan, Agustin; Vidal, Rafael – Online Submission, 2007
A new book of standards for quality of tests has been published in Spanish, filling a gap on this field. The book includes 64 standards, comments, a companion questionnaire for self-evaluation and a planning schedule; with those tools a non-expert may understand the standards, and easily follow some procedures to design or to improve a test. The…
Descriptors: Scoring, Questionnaires, Latin Americans, Objective Tests
Roane, Warren – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of the study was to examine four questions concerning English Language Learners (ELLs). First, does English Language Learner status impact math scores? Second, does immigrant status favorably contribute to math achievement? Third, what math achievement is possible in other countries where there is multilingualism or high immigrant…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning, National Competency Tests
Zimmerman, James K. – 1992
The particular migrational and acculturative stresses and psychosocial experiences of Latino families seem to converge to create unique conditions for suicide attempts by adolescent Latinas. Adolescent Latinas may internalize the ambivalence their mothers experience about the directions taken in their own lives. Suicide attempts in adolescent…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adolescents, Counseling Techniques, Daughters
Aiex, Nola Kortner – 1986
Latin elements or themes made for the North American market have been used in American films, but at the same time these films have been playing in a Latin American market, making it useful to examine how Latin America has been portrayed in these films. The taste for exotic locales and themes is an element that has been present since the…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Ethnic Stereotypes, Film Criticism, Film Industry
Menanteau-Horta, Dario – 1983
Interviews with high school seniors in Bolivia (n=1,100) and Chile (n=2,460) demonstrated that individuals with international contacts hold more positive attitudes toward others than those individuals without this type of exposure. The study examined the students' opinions about other countries of the Latin American region, opportunities for…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Interrelationships, Culture Contact
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Santiago (Chile). Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. – 1993
This report summarizes UNESCO's co-operation activities within the framework of the Major Project of Education in the field of Education in Latin America and the Caribbean between May 1991 and March 1993. Regional priorities had been established in Quito (Ecuador) in 1991 to focus on: (1) women as protagonists both in family life and economic…
Descriptors: Children, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Policarpo, Alcibiades – 2001
This paper speculates about whether a literary canon exists in contemporary Latin American literature, particularly in the prose genre. The paper points to Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa as the three authors who might form this traditional and liberal canon with their works "La Muerte de Artemio Cruz"…
Descriptors: Authors, Latin American Literature, Literary Criticism, Novels
