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Allweiss, Alexandra – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2023
This article centers two "zones of sovereignty" that Maya Chuj youth organizers and educators in Guatemala and the United States created from within and across nation-states and settler colonial projects. It highlights how these spaces supported Chuj young people and educators as they navigated and (re)imagined relationality and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Activism, Maya (People)
Germination, Early Development, and Creativity in the Acquisition of the Yucatec Maya Deictic System
Espinosa Ochoa, Mary Rosa – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The Yucatec Maya language has a highly complex deictic system with interesting typological differences that in addition to demonstratives and locative adverbs also includes ostensive evidentials and modal adverbs. Given that deictic words are among the first that children produce, the aim of this study is to identify the early acquisition that…
Descriptors: Mayan Languages, Maya (People), Language Acquisition, Children
Alcalá, Lucía; Cervera, María Dolores – Infant and Child Development, 2022
In most cultures, but particularly among Indigenous communities of the Americas, children help extensively with household work. However, less is known about the role of maternal ethnotheories as cultural organizers of the family environment and children's helping. We explored Maya maternal ethnotheories about children's learning to help in two…
Descriptors: Maya (People), Mothers, Ethnography, Biographies
Alex Feliciano Mejía – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This paper analyzes, and discusses Maya family narratives as they pertain to the educational perspectives and values they shared about their relatives in East Oakland, California. These were on display in ethnographic interview contexts conducted with families of Maya youth on their ancestral lands in the Guatemalan departments of Huehuetenango…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Maya (People), Cultural Maintenance, Family Relationship
Vásquez-Colina, María D. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
Parents' conceptions of assessment are important as they have a key role in supporting their child's educational goals. Through two focus group interviews conducted in Spanish, Mayan mothers (N = 8) discussed their experiences acquiring assessment knowledge. The results suggest that the parents held basic conceptions of assessment, and described…
Descriptors: Assessment Literacy, Maya (People), Mother Attitudes, Mothers
Moreno Rodríguez, Diana Carolina; Núñez Camacho, Vladimir; Varela, Leonardo – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2022
This article reflects on critical literacies and advances on the idea of performative literacies concerning non-schooled writing practices. Critical literacy posits that beyond literate-school practices there are alternatives to reading and writing. These include semiotic, multimodal, ritual and corporal elements that show knowledge of reality and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Literacy, Grief, Ceremonies
Maison, Léa Marie – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
This article discusses the contributions of different worldviews to the debates on what a transformative sustainability education could be. It focuses on mainstream and alternative strands of thought present in the West, as well as Indigenous worldviews, taking the Zapatistas as an example. The Zapatista social movement of Mexico fights for the…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Political Socialization, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries
Rodríguez, Roberto – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2019
This work examines the philosophical foundation of Tucson's highly successful Mexican American studies program. The foundation included two Maya or maiz-based concepts: "In Lak'Ech" and "Panche Be." What is explored here is actually the larger philosophical universe from which these ideas are derived. The work examines the…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Indigenous Knowledge, Cultural Influences, Philosophy
Hernández, Amalia W.; Campos, Iván; Zyskind, Karen Zuniga – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: Meeting the needs of Maya children in U.S. schools requires extensive training. Research is lacking in best practices to support students with intersectional identities. This article provides a roadmap centralized on Maya children's experiences, acknowledging the linguistic diversity of Maya immigrants, their language and cultural…
Descriptors: Translation, Speech Language Pathology, Student Needs, Maya (People)
Luis Javier Pentón Herrera – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This article describes the journey I embarked on as a teacher-researcher to better understand the realities of two of my Maya English learners (ELs) in our learning environment. This yearlong (2018-2019) study took the form of a qualitative case study inquiry whose purpose was to explore how two Maya migrant youth from Guatemala experienced and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Immigrants, Maya (People)
Barbara Rogoff; Itzel Aceves-Azuara – Child Development, 2024
Changes in family life related to globalization may include reduction in the collaborativeness observed in many Indigenous American communities. The present study examined longitudinal changes and continuities in collaboration in a Guatemalan Maya community experiencing rapid globalization. Fluid collaboration was widespread 3 decades ago among…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Cooperation
Heidebrecht, Luke; Balzer, Geraldine – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2020
Global South and Indigenous communities often represent the contexts of international service learning (ISL) programs. However, rarely are the effects of historical colonization and the potential colonizing impact of Global North visitors being investigated. Central to this article is our story as Global North and settler-Canadian researchers who…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Maya (People), Foreign Countries, Postcolonialism
Barillas Chón, David W. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2021
This essay explores how stories of Tecum, Maya K'iche' warrior, and the quetzal can serve as creative entry points to contextualize the racialization and ideological positioning in Guatemala of Maya migrant youth who are now in U.S. schools. As we work on radicalizing possibilities and re-imagining liberatory futures, our efforts lie in crafting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Hispanic American Students, Experience
Furner, Joseph; Powers, Jillian; Brown, Susannah – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2021
Across the United States, there are many elementary aged students whose parents or themselves are from Mexico, Guatemala, and Central America having Mayan heritage. In alignment with instructional concepts that build a positive classroom culture encouraging higher level learning for all students, the authors designed and implemented a curriculum…
Descriptors: Maya (People), Latin American Culture, Elementary School Students, Integrated Curriculum
Hackett, Chelsea – Teaching Artist Journal, 2020
This article examines the challenges faced and lessons learned while developing the SPEAK Young Women's Vocal Empowerment Curriculum and leading 30 educators through a Professional Development Training on the curriculum in Guatemala in 2019. The guiding question is, "What does it take to train non-teaching artists in the skills needed to lead…
Descriptors: Artists, Art Teachers, Mentors, Faculty Development