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The benefits of diversified agricultural systems among Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize

Creator:: Hofbauer, Derek M.
Abstract:: Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize face socio-economic hardships, persisting environmental constraints, and an unfavorable political climate that has prevented land tenure stability on reservation lands. This thesis describes the agricultural practices of a group of Mopan farmers and examines farm-site diversification and its relationship to ecological knowledge, out-migration, agricultural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: people in San Jose Village for their warm hospitality and contributions to this thesis. Luis and Gavino

The present status of industrial arts in the junior high schools of California

Creator:: Baldwin, Willis Ambrose
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Courses in the Junior High Schools of San Jose. 73 VII-k. Course Offerings and Grade Placements of

Literacy politics and literacy education : thematic perspectives in contemporary Chicana/o narrative

Creator:: Bowman, Christine D.
Abstract:: Literacy is often considered to be a basic set of skills to be mastered by the student; the conventional wisdom maintains that the individual who has mastered these skills is then literate. Scholars in the field of literacy studies, however, argue that such assumptions about literacy fail to take into...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Elia Cantu, and Luis Rodrfguez illustrate how these three developed literate behaviors and how each

Reflections on a Poetry Workshop with First-Year Latin@ Students at Oregon State University

Creator:: Cole, Matthew Colin
Abstract:: This paper explores the benefits of a poetry workshop with first-year Latin@ students at Oregon State University. Over the course of nine weeks, participants met once a week for fifty minutes to analyze and discuss culturally relevant poetry as well as compose and revise their own work. Drawing from critical...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: . As we 1 Funds of knowledge, as defined by Luis Moll et al., (1992) refer to “the historically

The electrification of Mexico

Creator:: Gill, Andrew Douglas
Abstract:: This research paper is an analysis of the electric energy industry in Mexico since its inception in 1879. The research is based entirely on library sources plus documents secured from the Federal Electricity Commission of Mexico. Only minimal documentary evidence is available in English, consequently the Oregon State University library...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Confidence Jose Hernndez Delgado, President of the influencial Mexican industrial bank, Nacional Financiera

Putting Coyolxauhqui Back Together : Queer Nepantleras Rewriting Latinx Memory

Creator:: Villalba, Alex Aleman
Abstract:: Indigenous and Latinx communities have always used storytelling to pass along ancestral histories and memories, whether it be through the act of speaking, performing or other types of artwork. This thesis examines the ways that queer Latinx artists are retelling the stories that have been mistold to erase, repress and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Hector Luis Alamo, the deputy editor of Latino Rebels (not to be confused with Latina Rebels) who was

Ni de aquí ni de alla : A Mythohistoriography of Growing Up In-Between

Creator:: López, Andrés C.
Abstract:: Stories of the Guatemalan Civil War, which lasted from 1960 until 1996, have often focused on only encapsulating the violence indigenous people experienced at the hands of the Guatemalan government and military. Although these stories contributed to the many civil rights organizing and calls for justice that followed, these types...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Affect, the Performativity of Race, and the Depressive Position,” José Esteban Muñoz discusses

Preferred customers? : barriers for Hispanics in Oregon's managed care Medicaid program

Creator:: Keys, Robert T. III
Abstract:: From February to September of 2001, a significant body of qualitive data was collected to investigate barriers for Hispanic participation in Oregon's managed care Medicaid program. As a means to investigate this topic, comments were solicited from physicians, hospital administrators, social service agencies, and low-income Hispanics through semi-structured focus groups...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Power and participation in urban planning : an ethnographic case study of Curitiba, Brazil

Creator:: Piel, Eric W.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the concepts of power and participation and how they are intertwined in the examination of the urban planning systems in Curitiba, Brazil. Power is identified as both the planning system's ability to affect the daily lives of the city's residents and the power of individuals and groups...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Araucária, Campo Largo, Colombo, Fazenda Rio Grande, Pinhais, Sào José dos Pinhais and the municipio of

What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

Creator:: Anderson, Jessica
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to understand the experiences that Nahua children, in rural Mexico, have as they attend schools that are primarily influenced by formal Western education in relation to their own ways of learning and knowing. This research took place over the course of three months within...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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The benefits of diversified agricultural systems among Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize

The present status of industrial arts in the junior high schools of California

Literacy politics and literacy education : thematic perspectives in contemporary Chicana/o narrative

Reflections on a Poetry Workshop with First-Year Latin@ Students at Oregon State University

The electrification of Mexico

Putting Coyolxauhqui Back Together : Queer Nepantleras Rewriting Latinx Memory

Ni de aquí ni de alla : A Mythohistoriography of Growing Up In-Between

Preferred customers? : barriers for Hispanics in Oregon's managed care Medicaid program

Power and participation in urban planning : an ethnographic case study of Curitiba, Brazil

What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

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