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Download full textDutcher, Nadine – 2001
This report provides information designed to encourage those working in international education to directly confront "language problems" by considering the effectiveness and feasibility of initial education in the mother tongue or local language. It serves as a bridge between applied linguistics and developmental education, exploring…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education
Rogoff, Barbara – 1977
In this study the relationship between mother's teaching style (verbal instruction vs. demonstration) and the child's performance on four memory tests was investigated. Mothers' teaching style with 9-year-old children was observed in an induced teaching situation in the home, in a Guatemalan Maya town. In the induced teaching situation, the mother…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Memory
Wittmann, Teresa – 2000
This curriculum unit combines folk tales and art from Guatemala and Mexico. The unit introduces students to traditional stories and local art of the indigenous people, as well as some details about the culture and geography of the area. It contains four lesson plans: (1) "The Race of Toad and Deer" (Guatemala), mask and play, grades 2-4;…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
O'Gara, Chloe; Benoliel, Sharon; Sutton, Margaret; Tietjen, Karen – 1999
This report evaluates U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) efforts to improve basic education for girls. The evaluation drew on field studies in: Guatemala, Guinea, Malawi, Nepal, and Pakistan; a country desk study of Egypt; issue-oriented research on Bolivia and Thailand; and a literature review. Findings indicate that effective…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Development, Educational Needs, Educational Quality
Clark, Carol A. M. – 1981
To investigate whether low school attendance rates in Guatemala (about 35% of primary school aged children do not attend) are due primarily to the need for children in low income families to contribute to family income or child care and other housekeeping tasks, time use data were collected in 4 rural villages from mothers of 369 children, aged…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attendance, Child Labor, Child Responsibility
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
