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Hardin, Belinda J.; Vardell, Rosemarie; de Castaneda, Albertina – Childhood Education, 2008
This article describes an early childhood professional development project that took place in the summer of 2005 in Guatemala City. Located in Central America, Guatemala has a population of approximately 12.3 million people, including more than two million children under the age of 5 (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2007; UNICEF, 2004). Events…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Child Care
Wilgus, Karna S., Comp. – 1974
This annotated bibliography citing 479 books on Latin America is a revised and updated version of a 1969 edition available as ED 059 120. The emergence of independent nations in the English-speaking Caribbean and other realignments in hemisphere affairs, as well as the appearance of new materials, indicated the need for a new edition. The revision…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Area Studies, Developing Nations, Economics
Stanford Univ., CA. Stanford Program on International and Cross Cultural Education. – 1992
This unit, to be used with students in grades 6-10, has been designed to serve three purposes. First, the unit acts as an introduction to, or review of, fundamental geographic concepts and vocabulary. Second, it teaches students about the basic physical and political geography of Latin America. Third, students learn to examine maps with a critical…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Geographic Concepts
Champion, James J. – 1987
The Instituto Caro y Cuervo of Bogota, Colombia, named after two outstanding Colombian intellectuals, was established in 1942 primarily to complete the lexicographic work of Rufino Jose Cuervo. It has continued its work through several reorganizations, and in 1947 was charged with the study of the present state of the Spanish language in various…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Cultural Enrichment, Descriptive Linguistics
Economic Commission for Latin America (UN), Santiago (Chile). – 1984
Five studies on the situation of women in Latin America focus on (1) the integration of women in development, (2) the family as the immediate social framework of children and women, (3) some types of poor women in Latin America, (4) the educational situation of women, and (5) women in development and housework. An introductory section outlining…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Employed Women, Females, Foreign Countries
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Anson, Christina N., Comp.; Barry, Maria E. – 1995
This guide provides information on 42 directories that list over 20,000 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Latin America and the Caribbean. Listings cover NGOs in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean Region, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico,…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Community Development, Developing Nations, Directories