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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
Peer reviewedReichenbach, Bruce R.; Reichenbach, Sharon H. – Social Education, 1991
Describes a class simulation designed to enhance student awareness of social classes in Latin America. Notes that students learn how these groups function within their social and economic milieu. Includes detailed instruction for simulation procedure and roles that students play. Students become aware of inequities, the role of supply and demand,…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Economics Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Gage, Susan – 1991
Dialogue and illustrations trace the history of the first peoples of South, Central, and North America and encourage students to look at past and present patterns of colonialism and to view colonialism from the perspective of the colonized. Chapter 1 critiques Columbus 500 years after founding the first colony in the Americas. Chapter 2 presents…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Colonialism, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Download full textNew York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Secondary Curriculum Development. – 1972
This publication is offered as a resource guide for teachers rather than as a prescriptive syllabus. No course of study is delineated and no course objectives are spelled out. Instead there are illustrative examples for applying discovery techniques to the study of Latin America, suggestions of various themes useful in organizing a course of study…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Area Studies, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development
Sommers, Meredith; And Others – 1993
This educational packet is produced as a tribute to Guatemalan activist and Nobel Peace prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu, and in honor of the Year of Indigenous People, 1993, as declared by the United Nations. The core of the packet is a simulation exercise based on an indigenous family in a Guatemalan village on the day the Peace prize was…
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Liberties, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness
