Using a reflective exercise designed for this study, Guatemalan educators explored their students’ and their own cultural capital. The cultural capsule exercise served as a vehicle to bring delicate issues that are difficult to discuss, but that are essential to effective schooling, to reflective conversations. A total of 108 teachers went beyond identifying problems and detailing frustrations, to exploring possibilities for action. Participants converged in sharing perspectives that Guatemala is a culture of silence, and used examples to illustrate how this perpetuates the limitations of the country’s schoolhouse. Findings reveal the teachers were challenged to focus on what can be accomplished. Qualitative data analyzes, conducted using s...
In recent years, the social and political persecution of the Maya population throughout Central Amer...
Includes bibliographical references.The focus of this project will be to scrutinize the world of Gua...
In this chapter I show the relationship between participation on the one hand and policy formation a...
Using a reflective exercise designed for this study, Guatemalan educators explored their students’ a...
This case study with educators from a school in an urban low socioeconomic neighborhood near Guatema...
Education potentially empowers. The study\u27s purpose is to determine if the USAID Project for Bili...
Rural and Indigenous populations have the lowest educational achievement indicators and teachers wit...
Rural and Indigenous populations have the lowest educational achievement indicators and teachers wit...
This article presents the results of an investigation that documents the challenges that select teac...
Significant efforts have been made to improve the educational system in the Western Highlands of Gua...
This article describes action research performed by Guatemalan instructional coaches during intensiv...
El propósito de esta investigación fue analizar narraciones de la etapa escolar y del trabajo aúlico...
This case study examines how teachers preserve and foster the funds of knowledge students bring to s...
The impact of globalization and the so-called information society put in question the traditional pa...
The Consejo de Lectura de Guatemala, an affiliate council of the International Reading Association c...
In recent years, the social and political persecution of the Maya population throughout Central Amer...
Includes bibliographical references.The focus of this project will be to scrutinize the world of Gua...
In this chapter I show the relationship between participation on the one hand and policy formation a...
Using a reflective exercise designed for this study, Guatemalan educators explored their students’ a...
This case study with educators from a school in an urban low socioeconomic neighborhood near Guatema...
Education potentially empowers. The study\u27s purpose is to determine if the USAID Project for Bili...
Rural and Indigenous populations have the lowest educational achievement indicators and teachers wit...
Rural and Indigenous populations have the lowest educational achievement indicators and teachers wit...
This article presents the results of an investigation that documents the challenges that select teac...
Significant efforts have been made to improve the educational system in the Western Highlands of Gua...
This article describes action research performed by Guatemalan instructional coaches during intensiv...
El propósito de esta investigación fue analizar narraciones de la etapa escolar y del trabajo aúlico...
This case study examines how teachers preserve and foster the funds of knowledge students bring to s...
The impact of globalization and the so-called information society put in question the traditional pa...
The Consejo de Lectura de Guatemala, an affiliate council of the International Reading Association c...
In recent years, the social and political persecution of the Maya population throughout Central Amer...
Includes bibliographical references.The focus of this project will be to scrutinize the world of Gua...
In this chapter I show the relationship between participation on the one hand and policy formation a...