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"Turning the Sugar": Adult Learning and Cultural Repertoires of Practice in a Puerto Rican Community
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Johnson, Laura Ruth; Stribling, Colleen; Almburg, Anne; Vitale, Gail – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2015
This article examines the processes of knowledge acquisition and transmission among adults within two "communities of practice" in Humboldt Park/"Paseo Boricua," a Puerto Rican community located on Chicago's near-northwest side. In particular, we examine the ways in which two adult women engaged in learning processes and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Puerto Ricans, Hispanic Americans, Communities of Practice
"Why Aren't There Enough of Our Stories to Read?": Teaching Autoethnographies for Radical Healing
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Enid Marie Rosario-Ramos – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to draw on the analysis of instruction and student work in an English Language Arts classroom to discuss how teachers may support dispossessed students' journeys toward radical healing (Ginwright, 2010) by using critically caring pedagogies -- pedagogies grounded in teachers' deep understanding of the systemic inequalities…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship, Caring
The Association of Externalizing Behavior and Parent-Child Relationships: An Intergenerational Study
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Brook, Judith S.; Lee, Jung Yeon; Finch, Stephen J.; Brown, Elaine N. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2012
We investigated the influence of the child's behavior on the quality of the mutual parent-child attachment relationships across three generations. We did so using a prospective longitudinal study which spanned 20 years from adolescence through adulthood. Study participants completed in-class questionnaires as students in the East Harlem area of…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Prevention, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
Embodying Women's Stories for Community Awareness and Social Action
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Nieves, Yolanda – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2012
This article highlights four concepts related to embodied knowledge for community awareness: (1) possibilities; (2) risk; (3) collective engagement; and (4) performance. It examines the author's narrative study investigation manifested in a performance text as a case study on how women embodied repressed knowledge and released it through…
Descriptors: Females, Social Action, Learning Processes, Fundamental Concepts
Factors of Significant Impact on Proficiency Levels of Adult ESL Learners within Post-Secondary Education in Puerto Rico
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Perez, Ramon – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This qualitative case study seeks to identify factors that have a significant impact on the second language proficiency levels of adult English as a Second Language (ESL) learners at a four-year university in Puerto Rico. Current data indicate that a significant percentage of adult ESL learners encounter major difficulties within the process of…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Puerto Ricans, Language Proficiency
Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1928-1930. Bulletin, 1931, No. 20. Volume I. Chapter XVII: Education of Certain Racial Groups in the United States and its Territories
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Cook, Kathernine M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1931
The extent and significance of the American undertaking to provide for or promote free public and universal education among the minority groups and native populations now living under our flag, large numbers of whom are citizens or potential citizens of our Republic, can be appreciated only in the light of the entire situation involved. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, National Surveys, School Statistics