Essays about: "Maya Community"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words Maya Community.
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1. Aunque les cueste la vida/ Even if it will cost them their life : A study of irregular migration between Guatemala and the United States of America and the effects it has on the Maya communities
University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Globala studierAbstract : Today, many Guatemalans flee the country and leave their home communities behind due to poor living conditions and high unemployment. Irregular migration involves many risks yet is for many seen as a necessity to live a purposeful life. READ MORE
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2. Trade-offs between land conservation and agricultural production: Case study of the Spanish Lookout area and the Belize Maya Forest Reserve
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : Habitat destruction (evidenced in land use change) represents one of the biggest threats to environmental resources and biodiversity. In the tropics, this threat is maximized as deforestation frontiers have expanded into natural ecosystems at increasing rates over the last decades for agricultural cropping and livestock husbandry. READ MORE
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3. “Hoy seguimos hablando y hoy estamos retomando la escritura del namui wam” (Today we continue to speak (Namui Wam) and today we take back the writing of Namui Wam) : A case study of Language Practices and Ideologies of Namui Wam in a Misak school of Guambía
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskningAbstract : This study aims to shed more light on the role indigenous languages have in bilingual education by focusing on the language use of Namui Wam in a Misak school of the territory of Guambía in Cauca, Colombia. Based on a critical linguistic ethnographical approach, this study investigates language ideologies and linguistic practices among teachers and students. READ MORE
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4. Learning from the intangible : How can learning based on the three pedagogical principles of Integral Education be assessed?
University essay from Umeå universitet/Pedagogiska institutionenAbstract : Today, schools wanting to work with Integral Education are caught between security that the traditional system of social reproduction offers parents and children, and the universal needs of a new global education for human change that is trying to emerge. This pull between the expectations of the past and the aspirations of the future, gives little scope for deepening in the present. READ MORE
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5. Resilient Disaster Recovery: An exploration of operationalizing climate change adaptation measures in disaster recovery at the community level on Grand Bahama and Abaco
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : This explorative case-study examines the dynamics of operationalizing climate change adaptation (CCA) measures in the aftermath of climate change induced natural disaster at the community level in a low-lying coastal Nation State with fragile institutional capacity. It explores the roles and responsibilities different stakeholder groups take and identifies constraints and facilitators for operationalizing CCA measures in disaster recovery to ultimately explore leverage points or pathways towards greater integration of CCA measures in the phase of disaster recovery. READ MORE
