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The Cost of Your Shirt. A Simulation Exercise for Secondary Students and Adults, Based on the Real-Life Drama of Guatemalan Textile Workers.
Swenson, Mary, Comp.; Austin, Jane, Comp. – 1992
This simulation exercise requires participants to practice critical thinking, problem solving, and negotiating skills as they role play real-life conflicts concerning working conditions in a factory in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Participants also learn about Guatemala's history, its social, economic, and political status as of April 1994. Based on…
Descriptors: Clothing, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Global Education
Rio Blanco: Land Use in a Highland Guatemalan Village. A Precollegiate Curriculum Unit: Grades 6-12. Revised.
Stanford Univ., CA. Stanford Program on International and Cross Cultural Education. – 1987
This unit, developed for grades 6-12, is designed to help students grasp what life is like in a highland village in Guatemala. It is intended that students develop skills in geography and begin to discuss such ideas as rural poverty, migration to urban centers, land distribution, and agricultural methods. The unit involves the use of a set of…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Geographic Concepts, Geography Instruction
Outline of Education Systems and School Conditions in Latin America. Bulletin, 1923, No. 44
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Luckey, George W. A. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
This bulletin is divided into two parts: (1) South America; and (2) Mexico, Cuba, and Central America. The countries included under the term "Latin America" are so extensive and important, and the effects of the World War, direct and indirect, on all systems of education have been so disturbing, that one is at a loss to know how best to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, War, Public Education