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Direct linkLongman-Mills, S.; Gonzalez, W. Y.; Melendez, M. O.; Garcia, M. R.; Gomez, J. D.; Juarez, C. G.; Martinez, E. A.; Penalba, S. J.; Pizzanelli, E. M.; Solorzano, L. I.; Wright, M. G. M.; Cumsille, F.; De La Haye, W.; Sapag, J. C.; Khenti, A.; Hamilton, H. A.; Erickson, P. G.; Brands, B.; Flam-Zalcman, R.; Simpson, S.; Wekerle, C.; Mann, R. E. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2013
Objectives: Research from developed countries shows that child maltreatment increases the risk for substance use and problems. However, little evidence on this relationship is available from developing countries, and recognition of this relationship may have important implications for substance demand reduction strategies, including efforts to…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Evidence, Addictive Behavior, Drug Abuse
Corona, Victor; Nussbaum, Luci; Unamuno, Virginia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
Since the end of the last century, more than 10% of students in Catalonia's schools are immigrants, mostly concentrated in areas of Catalonia where the population speaks Castilian in everyday life. Although these newcomers are educated in Catalan, the majority use diverse varieties of Spanish as their language of everyday communication. In the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Latin Americans, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism
Planas, Núria – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2014
The data reported in this article come from a large project whose goal was to explore how Latin American students in Catalonia, Spain use their two languages--Spanish and Catalan--to support their learning of mathematics in small groups with other students who are Spanish- or Catalan-dominant. For 5 years, lessons from bilingual mathematics…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Spanish, Romance Languages, Bilingual Education
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
Meunier, Muriel; de Coulon, Augustin; Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar; Vignoles, Anna – Education Economics, 2013
We consider the relative academic achievement in primary school of second-generation immigrant children in the UK. The education progress of these groups of children is of historical interest and is also relevant to the policy debate today, since ethnic minority students in England continue to have lower levels of achievement in primary school,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Immigrants, Elementary School Students, Minority Group Students
Reyes, Kathryn Blackmer; Curry Rodriguez, Julia E. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2012
People of color in the United States have utilized the liberationist "testimonio" as both methodology and narrative development. This essay provides a discussion about the roots of "testimonio" in Latin America and how it has been transformed, integrating qualitative research approaches, oral history, spoken word, and memoir…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Oral History, Interviews, Latin Americans
Solano-Campos, Ana – TESOL Journal, 2014
In the last decade, international teacher recruitment has accounted for an unprecedented number of nonnative-English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) from around the world hired to work in public schools in urban areas in the United States. However, the worldwide trend of international teacher recruitment, and its implications for issues of language,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Applied Linguistics
Download full textColombo, Laura – Journal of International Students, 2014
It is late at night, after working all day on her postdoctoral research Laura Colombo is trying to wind down while drawing and jotting down thoughts in her notebook. She is in the living room/office of her apartment in Buenos Aires, the city where she was born and left when she was 26 years old to pursue her graduate studies in the United States…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Researchers, Study Abroad, Graduate Study
Gomez, Fernando; Curcio, Carmen Lucia – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2013
The underlying rationale to support interdisciplinary collaboration in geriatrics and gerontology is based on the complexity of elderly care. The most important characteristic about interdisciplinary health care teams for older people in Latin America is their subjective-basis framework. In other regions, teams are organized according to a…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Geriatrics, Foreign Countries, Educational Gerontology
Freeman, Kassie, Ed.; Johnson, Ethan, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This volume gathers scholars from around the world in a comparative approach to the various educational struggles of people of African descent, advancing the search for solutions and bringing to light new facets of the experiences of black people in the era of globalization. This book begins with "Black Populations in the Diaspora:…
Descriptors: Blacks, African Americans, Latin Americans, Children
Furniss, Gillian J. – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2011
Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humanity, sustainability is the potential for long-term maintenance of well-being and has environmental, economic, and social dimensions. In Oaxaca, Mexico, artists and artisans create everyday objects that are aesthetically pleasing, functional for daily life, and that represent the continuation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Latin American Culture, Visual Arts
Jackson, Michelle; Jonsson, Jan O.; Rudolphi, Frida – Sociology of Education, 2012
The authors ask whether choice-driven education systems, with comprehensive schools and mass education at the secondary and tertiary level, represented in this article by England and Sweden, provide educational opportunities for ethnic minorities. In studying educational attainment, the authors make a theoretical distinction between mechanisms…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Opportunities, Disadvantaged, Minority Groups
McBride, Kara – Hispania, 2015
This study explores which features of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) pronunciation most impact raters' evaluations. Native Spanish speakers (NSSs) from regions with different pronunciation norms were polled: 147 evaluators from northern Mexico and 99 evaluators from central Argentina. These evaluations were contrasted with ratings from…
Descriptors: Spanish, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
Rockwell, Elsie; Vera, Eugenia Roldan – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2013
ISCHE 33 was convened in San Luis Potosi to re-examine a relationship--that between society, education and the state--that had been largely taken for granted in official histories of education of modern nations. This theme was inspired by the bicentenary celebrations of the relatively early nineteenth-century movements (from 1804 to 1824) that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Latin American History, Historiography
Gilboy, Mary Beth; Bill, Debra E. – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
A week long immersion experience in Guanajuato, Mexico provided an opportunity for public health and nutrition students to improve their understanding of Mexican culture, nutrition, and food traditions. The experience positively impacted the students' understanding of the importance of cultural sensitivity in working with the local Mexican…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Education, Latin American Culture, Food
