This guide offers a closer look at Paraguay as a landlocked republic in the heart of South America. The activities emphasize the interaction between the people and their land and pertain to three academic levels. Activities for grades 3-5 include: (1) "Packing for Paraguay"; (2) "Where in the World Are We Going and How in the World…

This curricular unit is intended for use at the secondary level. The understandings in Topic I are organized under four main heaings: The Indigenous Population or the pre-Columbian civilizations; The Immigrants from Europe and West Africa; Slavery In Latin America during the pre-colonial and colonial periods and, Race mixture including racial…

The author analyzes massive migrations of the late 1960's and early 1970's to the United States by reference to a Puerto Rican migration study indicating active employer recruitment efforts to relieve the labor shortage at the bottom of the labor market. (Adapted from a 1974 Industrial Relations Research Association conference paper.) (EA)

An overview of the international expansion of advertising agencies based in the United States is presented in the first part of this paper. The various types of strategies used by the agencies in their expansion efforts are discussed along with some of the problems they have faced. The second part of the paper focuses specifically on the expansion…

SELECTED KEY IDEAS CONTAINED IN THIS BULLETIN ABOUT LATIN AMERICA ARE ORGANIZED AROUND SIX CATEGORIES AND ARE MEANT AS SUGGESTIONS FOR CURRICULUM BUILDING AND EMPHASIS IN A SOCIAL STUDIES CLASS. THE SIX CATEGORIES ARE--(1) THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT, (2) HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS, (3) CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY AND THE FAMILY, (4) CONTEMPORARY CULTURE, (5)…

Reporting briefly on the state of classroom films as determined by a project reviewing educational and feature films dealing with Latin America, this report offers suggestions for improving the accessibility and quality of audio-visual materials. (SM)

Discusses the background and philosophies of Paulo Freire, a Brazilian reformer, who set up adult literacy programs in Brazil and Chile. (JF)

The 230 references include books, Spanish-language magazines and newspapers, the Chicano press and audiovisual materials which have proven successful with a Chicano public. (230 references) (MM)

Short excerpts from author's testimony before the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, on July 28, 1969. (RJ)

Traces contemporary literary analyses of Latin American melodrama and the romance, looking especially at the work of Peter Brooks and Janice Radway. Suggests that the film "Lejania" produces a spectatorship of shifting positionalities, which mitigate against a passive spectatorship that would serve as a reactionary force. (RS)

Examines educational reform and Vygotsky's influence on critical pedagogy in Brazil from two perspectives. One is the historical tradition of accepting multiplicity of learning behaviors, and the other is a close analysis of an environment that espoused the idea of literacy as a cultural production shared by everyone. (MMU)