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Sena, Rachel; Schoorman, Dilys; Bogotch, Ira – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2013
Sister R., the first author, is a Dominican Sister of Peace. Until recently, Sister R. had been the director of the Maya Ministry Family Literacy Program, working with the Maya Community in Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, Florida. She described her work with these indigenous, preliterate, hardworking peoples as "a university of the poor"…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Instructional Leadership, Immigrants, Hispanic Americans
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Meyers, Susan V. – Gender and Education, 2011
Drawing from ethnographic case studies, this article considers issues of women's access to education by exploring the literacy experiences of four women in rural Mexico. Ironically, as physical access to education in this area has increased, women's literacy experiences have become more complex, rather than more libratory. Formal literacy, as it…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Access to Education