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Direct linkHall, Horace R.; Brown-Thirston, Andrea – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
"Understanding Teenage Girls: Culture, Identity and Schooling" focuses on a range of social phenomenon that impact the lives of adolescent females of color. The authors highlight the daily challenges that African-American, Chicana, and Puerto Rican teenage girls face with respect to peer and family influences, media stereotyping, body image,…
Descriptors: Females, Self Concept, Pregnancy, Puerto Ricans
Tovar, Federico Ribes – 1973
This book presents a chronological history of Puerto Rico from prehistory and discovery through December of 1972. It includes information on the persons and events that influenced the course of Puerto Rican history. A table of contents and a selective index are included. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Biographies, History, Puerto Rican Culture, Puerto Ricans
Brion-Meisels, Gretchen, Ed.; Cooper, Kristy S., Ed.; Deckman, Sherry S., Ed.; Dobbs, Christina L., Ed.; Francois, Chantal, Ed.; Nikundiwe, Thomas, Ed.; Shalaby, Carla, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2010
This collection of essays from the "Harvard Educational Review" offers historic examples of humanizing educational spaces, practices, and movements that embody a spirit of hope and change. From Dayton, Ohio, to Barcelona, Spain, this collection of essays from the "Harvard Educational Review" carries readers to places where…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Change, Poverty, Presidents
Rodriguez de Laguna, Asela, Ed. – 1987
The essays and articles in this collection were presented at a conference on "the Puerto Rican in Literature" that addressed, among other issues, the duality of the Puerto Rican experience and the constant oscillation between mainland and the island. The essays represent the vitality, diversity, and distinctiveness of contemporary Puerto…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Hispanic Americans, Identification (Psychology), Imagery
Download full textConstantino, Giuseppe; And Others – 1985
A seven-year project developing and testing cuento therapy, a form of child psychotherapy in which Puerto Rican mothers recount to their children folktales taken from Puerto Rican culture, is described and evaluated in this monograph. Chapter 1 explains how the research presented in later chapters fits into substantially broader patterns of…
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Emotional Disturbances, Folk Culture
Wagenheim, Kal – 1975
This book presents a survey of Puerto Ricans in United States urban areas in New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Ohio. The survey includes a discussion of education, language, literacy, jobs and income, and demography. A few of the highlights of the survey include: (1) the unemployment picture for…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Demography, Economic Status, Educational Background
Mizio, Emelicia, Ed. – 1979
A model of mental health service delivery to the low-income Puerto Rican population in areas of the mainland United States where Puerto Ricans are concentrated is presented in this report. The model, designed for use by family service agencies and other similar mental health facilities, assumes that Puerto Ricans are at great risk for mental…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Family (Sociological Unit), Mental Health, Mental Health Programs
Rosenbloom, Susan Rakosi – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
From 1996-2000, thirty minority teenagers (African American, Chinese American, Puerto Rican American, and Dominican American) were interviewed every year for four years to investigate how their experiences in high school shaped their social relationships. Contents of this book include: (1) Rethinking High School as a Relational Journey; (2)…
Descriptors: High School Students, Neighborhood Schools, School Choice, Friendship
Fiol-Matta, Liza, Ed.; Chamberlain, Mariam K., Ed. – 1994
This volume documents the Ford Foundation's Mainstreaming Minority Women's Studies program to encourage curriculum transformation by concentrating on the issues, learning, research, and achievements of women of color in the United States. Part 1 is on faculty development and begins with two essays: "Shifting Models, Creating Visions: Process…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development
Rodriguez, Clara E. – 1991
This social history of the post-World War II Puerto Rican community in the United States focuses mainly on New York City. Each of the following chapters can be read separately: (1) "The Colonial Relationship: Migration and History" examines the factors leading to the migration of Puerto Ricans to the United States and their choice of…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Migration Patterns, Modern History
Mapp, Edward, Ed. – 1974
The contents of this compendium are organized in four parts, as follows. Part one, "From Education," includes the following essays: "A Positive View of Bilingualism," Bejamin Pacheco; "Puerto Rican Children and the New York City Public Schools," Luis Fuentes; "Why Puerto Rican Students Drop Out of School: An Explanatory Analysis," Alexander…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Problems, Dropout Research, Educational Needs
Harry, Beth – 1992
This monograph addresses the way parents of minority students perceive the special education system, with specific attention to these parents' views of the process by which their children are designated as "handicapped." Chapter 1 discusses the Department of Education's racial classification system. Chapter 2 summarizes what is known…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Cultural Differences, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
PDF pending restorationDissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX. – 1973
This publication was compiled from a number of smaller manuscripts dealing with various aspects of Puerto Rican history, civilization, and culture. The book is designed to: (1) provide teachers of middle school and high school students with instructional material which covers all these aspects in a related sequential manner; and (2) provide…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Cultural Traits
Bean, Frank D.; Tienda, Marta – 1987
Over the past two decades peoples of Hispanic descent have had an increasing impact on the ethnic, socioeconomic, and demographic features of the U.S. population. This book draws together evidence from the 1980 census, earlier censuses, and other sources to portray the changing position of Hispanics in a complex and multiethnic society. Roughly…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Cubans, Data Interpretation, Demography
Leavitt, Ruby Rohrlich – 1974
This anthropological study examines whether sociocultural factors are basic to the etiology of stuttering through (1) an investigation of the incidence of stuttering in a single ethnic group, Puerto Rican rural migrants living in two different cultural milieus (San Juan and New York City), and (2) a comparison of the sociocultural variables in the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Culture, Anthropology, Area Studies
