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Kleyn, Tatyana – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2010
The Garifuna are an Indigenous, Afro-Latino group in Honduras whose distinct cultural, ethnic, and linguistic background has been unacknowledged and frequently misunderstood on a societal level and, consequently, in the schools that serve them. This study argues for the utility of a cultural mismatch approach, one applied primarily to U.S.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Lujan, Linda; Gallegos, Loretta; Harbour, Clifford P. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2003
Discusses how there is need for more published information about the experiences of Latinos in community colleges. Discusses the term "la tercera frontera" which describes cultural barriers that hold Latinos back. Recommends that more research be done to end marginalization of Latinos. (Contains 26 references.) (MZ)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Latin American Culture, Latin American History, Latin American Literature
Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2008
This article discusses the growing interest of scholars studying the connections between Asian and Hispanic populations and cultures. Scholars examining transnational communities and relationships often fend off skepticism from peers in longer-established, clearly defined academic disciplines who wonder about the relevancy of their pursuits,…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Hispanic Americans, Higher Education, Stranger Reactions
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Elahee, Mohammad; Norbis, Mario – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2009
This article examines the extent of internationalization of business education in Latin America and identifies the key challenges facing the Latin American business schools. Based on a survey of the business schools that are members of CLADEA (Consejo Latinoamericano de Escuelas de Administracion--Latin American Council of Management Schools), and…
Descriptors: Universities, Foreign Countries, Business Education, Latin Americans
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Morales, Betsy; Biau, Eileen K. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2009
Whenever a second language is the object of learning, identity (or sense of self) is at stake, and the question of what community and what speech community one belongs to, strives to belong to, or is afraid to belong to raises complex issues. As stated by Zarate, Bhimji, and Reese (2005): "A bicultural identity is not necessarily a homogeneous or…
Descriptors: Latin American Culture, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Political Issues
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Kiang, Lisa; Fuligni, Andrew J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
Within an ethnically diverse sample of young adults (n = 223, 26% Latin American, 14% Asian American, 32% Filipino American, 28% European American), average levels of ethnic identity was found to vary significantly across different relational contexts. Regardless of ethnicity, young adults reported highest levels of ethnic exploration and ethnic…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Young Adults, Filipino Americans, North Americans
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Moraña, Ana – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
It is my understanding that Latin American immigrants in the United States, during the contested process of becoming Latinos (US citizens or the offspring of Latin Americans born in US) are for the most part socially portrayed as unwanted, messy children who need to be educated before they can become American citizens. Whether they can be called…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Resistance (Psychology), Global Approach
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Luschei, Thomas F.; Carnoy, Martin – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
In this paper we discuss results from an analysis of a large dataset that includes virtually all sixth-grade students in Uruguay in 1996. We analyze the relationship between teacher attributes and student achievement scores and we explore the distribution of teachers according to characteristics identified as important by this analysis. We find…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Latin Americans
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Avila, Jocelyne Gacel – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2007
The purpose of this article is to analyze the present tendencies and characteristics, as well as the present and future perspectives of the process of internationalization in Latin American universities, in light of the results yielded by studies carried out in the region by the World Bank and the European Commission. Emphasis will be placed on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Latin American Culture, Latin American History, International Education
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Lamarra, Norberto Fernandez – Policy Futures in Education, 2009
The article first considers a characterization of higher education in Latin America, the principal problems and the scenarios that have led to the inclusion of quality assessment and accreditation processes in higher education as a priority in the regional agenda. The following aspects are then developed from a comparative perspective: the main…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Latin Americans
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Brunner, Jose Joaquin – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2009
Although Latin America's geography, history, and languages might seem a suitable foundation for a Bologna-type process, the development of a common Latin American higher education and research area meets predictable difficulties.The reasons are to be found in the continent's historic and modern institutional patterns. Latin American governments…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Cooperation, Supply and Demand, Cooperation
Bajaj, Carolyn Sattin – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2009
This paper explores the role of home-school conflicts in the educational failure of children of Latin American immigrants and examines how these conflicts have been framed and understood in the existing research literature. It argues that structural analyses of barriers to educational attainment alone fail to capture the multiplicity of forces…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment, Educational Change
Hartness, Ann, Ed. – Biblionoticias, 1992
"Biblionoticias" is a series of brief bibliographies, usually less than 5 pages each, on Latin American topics. The bibliographies describe materials in English, Spanish, and Portuguese held by the Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas at Austin. Selected topics are periodically updated. The titles of numbers 35-67…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, College Libraries, Higher Education, Latin American Culture
Brown, Edward E., Jr. – Online Submission, 2011
This paper argues that the "pipeline", leading to the production and increase of undergraduate engineering and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) related degrees by underrepresented student populations (which include female and AALANA (African American, Latin American and Native American) students), has become more of a "funnel".…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, American Indians, Affirmative Action, Minority Groups
Kennedy, James H. – 1986
This biographical/bibliographic guide provides profiles of three Afro-Brazilian writers: Jorge de Lima (1893-1953); Luiz Gonzaga Pinto da Gama (1830-1882); and Abdias do Nascimento (1914- ). The life of each author is briefly described and sources of English language translations together with critical studies of their works are listed. Four…
Descriptors: Blacks, Creative Writing, Drama, Latin American Culture
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