The Effect of Perceptions: Instructor–Student Dynamics in the Spanish Heritage Classroom

The rising population of heritage speakers (HS) in university courses in the US has increased the need for instructors who understand the linguistic, social, and cultural profiles of their students. Recent research has discussed the need for specialized courses and their differentiation from second-language (L2) classes, as well as the intersection between HS and language attitudes. However, prior studies have not examined HS students’ language attitudes toward the sociolinguistic background of the instructors and their effect on classroom interactions. Therefore, this study explores HS students’ overall language attitudes and perceptions of their instructors’ sociolinguistic background. In a survey, HS university students (N = 92) across the US assessed four instructor profiles along five dimensions. Results showed that students rated more favorably instructors born and raised in Latin America, followed by those from Spain. Furthermore, HS favored these two profiles over HS or L2 profiles as their course instructors. However, preferences were less marked in the online context. These findings demonstrate that to design supportive learning spaces with—rather than for—HS students, programs must first acknowledge how classroom dynamics are shaped by the perspectives brought into the learning space and by the context of the learning space itself.

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Analisis Pemenuhan Standar Sarana dan Prasarana Sekolah

PEDAGOGIKA ◽

10.37411/pedagogika.v10i2.86 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 59-71

Author(s):

Nina Lamatenggo ◽

Irun Abubakar ◽

Intan Abdul Razak

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Observation Data ◽

Learning Spaces ◽

Learning Space ◽

Computer Lab ◽

Descriptive Research ◽

Work Area ◽

Technical Drawing ◽

Space Infrastructure ◽

Drawing Practice

The purpose of this study was to determine the fulfillment of facilities and infrastructure of general learning spaces, supporting spaces and special learning spaces at SMK Almamater Telaga. This type of research is quantitative with the type of descriptive research. Data collection techniques using interviews, observation, data collection instruments and documentation. The results of the study are 1) the facilities and infrastructure of the general learning space are met according to the standards, and not according to the standards namely Biology Lab, Physics Lab, Chemistry Lab, Natural Sciences, Language Lab and technical drawing practice room. Whereas the facilities for 2 classrooms are in accordance with the standard and 13 classrooms, the library, and the computer lab are not yet in accordance with the standard, 2) the supporting facilities and infrastructure are met according to the standard, toilets, counseling rooms, UKS, and circulation rooms not according to standards, 3) facilities and special learning space infrastructure are not yet up to standard. Suggestions in this research are to pay more attention to the development of LAB infrastructure in Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Science, Technical Drawing Practice Room, Counseling Room, UKS Room and circulation room. In addition, the area of special learning space for all majors is adjusted according to the work area of each department.

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An Inter-American Episode

10.1093/oso/9780190690205.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jeffrey Lawrence

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

Pablo Neruda ◽

Jose Marti ◽

The South ◽

American Reader ◽

The North ◽

Literary Theories ◽

The Us

This chapter focuses on a paradigmatic misencounter between an American experiencer and a Latin American reader. Examining an implicit debate about the sources of Walt Whitman’s poetry and vision of the Americas, I argue that Waldo Frank, one of the twentieth century’s main literary ambassadors from the US to Latin America, positioned Whitman as the representative US writer whose antibookish experiential aesthetics could serve as a model for “American” writers both in the North and in the South. I show how Frank’s framework provided a foil for Borges’s idiosyncratic view that Whitman’s poetry about America derived entirely from his readings of European and US writers. Although much of the best scholarship on Whitman’s reception in Latin America has concentrated on poets like José Martí and Pablo Neruda, who adapted Whitman’s naturalism, I contend that Borges’s iconoclastic portrait of Whitman as a reader profoundly influenced a range of anti-experiential literary theories and practices in Latin America.

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Populism and Polarization in Comparative Perspective: Constitutive, Spatial and Institutional Dimensions

Government and Opposition ◽

10.1017/gov.2021.14 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-23

Author(s):

Kenneth M. Roberts

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Political Competition ◽

Electoral Competition ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

Political Polarization ◽

Political Agenda ◽

The Political ◽

Consistent Effect ◽

The Us ◽

Issue Dimensions

Abstract Polarization may be the most consistent effect of populism, as it is integral to the logic of constructing populist subjects. This article distinguishes between constitutive, spatial and institutional dimensions of polarization, adopting a cross-regional comparative perspective on different subtypes of populism in Europe, Latin America and the US. It explains why populism typically arises in contexts of low political polarization (the US being a major, if partial, outlier), but has the effect of sharply increasing polarization by constructing an anti-establishment political frontier, politicizing new policy or issue dimensions, and contesting democracy's institutional and procedural norms. Populism places new issues on the political agenda and realigns partisan and electoral competition along new programmatic divides or political cleavages. Its polarizing effects, however, raise the stakes of political competition and intensify conflict over the control of key institutional sites.

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Studying Collaboration Dynamics in Physical Learning Spaces: Considering the Temporal Perspective through Epistemic Network Analysis

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21092898 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (9) ◽

pp. 2898

Author(s):

Milica Vujovic ◽

Ishari Amarasinghe ◽

Davinia Hernández-Leo

Keyword(s):

Collaborative Learning ◽

Temporal Analysis ◽

Learning Design ◽

Learning Spaces ◽

Limited Evidence ◽

Temporal Perspective ◽

Learning Space ◽

Collaboration Dynamics ◽

Collaborative Activities

The role of the learning space is especially relevant in the application of active pedagogies, for example those involving collaborative activities. However, there is limited evidence informing learning design on the potential effects of collaborative learning spaces. In particular, there is a lack of studies generating evidence derived from temporal analyses of the influence of learning spaces on the collaborative learning process. The temporal analysis perspective has been shown to be essential in the analysis of collaboration processes, as it reveals the relationships between students’ actions. The aim of this study is to explore the potential of a temporal perspective to broaden understanding of the effects of table shape on collaboration when different group sizes and genders are considered. On-task actions such as explanation, discussion, non-verbal interaction, and interaction with physical artefacts were observed while students were engaged in engineering design tasks. Results suggest that table shape influences student behaviour when taking into account different group sizes and different genders.

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A great convergence: The American frontier and the origins of Japanese migration to Brazil

Journal of Global History ◽

10.1017/s1740022821000231 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Sidney Xu Lu

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

East Asia ◽

Latin American ◽

Ethnic Studies ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

American Frontier ◽

Westward Expansion ◽

Meiji Japan ◽

The Us ◽

Two Sides

Abstract This article explains how the US westward expansion influenced and stimulated Japanese migration to Brazil. Emerging in the nineteenth century as expanding powers in East Asia and Latin America, respectively, both Meiji Japan and post-independence Brazil looked to the US westward expansion as a central reference for their own processes of settler colonialism. The convergence of Japan and Brazil in their imitation of US settler colonialism eventually brought the two sides together at the turn of the twentieth century to negotiate for the start of Japanese migration to Brazil. This article challenges the current understanding of Japanese migration to Brazil, conventionally regarded as a topic of Latin American ethnic studies, by placing it in the context of settler colonialism in both Japanese and Brazilian histories. The study also explores the shared experiences of East Asia and Latin America as they felt the global impact of the American westward expansion.

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COVID-19 in Latin America: a first glance to the mortality

Colombia Medica ◽

10.25100/cm.v51i2.4366 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-3 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nubia Muñoz

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

Mortality Rates ◽

European Countries ◽

Death Rates ◽

Death Toll ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Health Authorities ◽

The Us ◽

Latin American Countries

It is too early to know which will be the final death toll from the Covid-19 or SARS-CoV-2 virus epidemy in Latin America since the epidemy is still active and we will not know when it will end. The curve for new infections and deaths has not reached yet a peak (Figure 1). In addition, we know little about the epidemiology of this new virus. The daily litany of the number of people infected with the number of admissions to hospitals and intensive care units and the number of deaths guides health authorities to plan health services and politicians to gauge the degree of confinement necessary to control the transmission of the virus, but it says little about the magnitude of the problem if we do not relate it to the population at risk. At the end of the pandemic, we will be able to estimate age-standardized death rates for the different countries, but until then the crude death rates will provide a first glance or snapshot of the death toll and impact of the pandemic from March to May 2020. These rates are well below those estimated in other countries in Europe and North America: Belgium (82.6), Spain (58.0), the United Kingdom (57.5), Italy (55.0), France (42.9), Sweden (41.4), and the US (30.7). (Johns Hopkins CSSE, May 30, 2020). However, in the European countries and the US the number of deaths has reached a peak, while this is not the case in Latin American countries. (Figure 1). It should be taken into account that the above rates are crude and therefore, some of the differences could be due to the fact that European countries have a larger proportion of the population over 70 years of age in whom higher mortality rates have been reported.

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