Anay''s Will to Learn - A Woman''s Education in the Shadow of the Maquiladoras

Informationen zum Autor Elaine Hampton is a retired Associate Professor of Education at the University of Texas at El Paso. She was an award-winning teacher in communities near the Mexican border and is a researcher in the fields of Mexican and Mexican-American education. Klappentext This ethnographic case study provides a personal view of a maquiladora worker's struggles with factory labor conditions, poverty, and violence as she journeys toward education, financial opportunity, and, ultimately, empowerment.Provides a personal view of a maquiladora worker's struggles with factory labor conditions, poverty, and violence as she journeys toward education, financial opportunity, and, ultimately, empowerment Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Meeting AnayChapter 2: Childhood in Southern MexicoChapter 3: Rural School in Southern MexicoChapter 4: Ofelia and the Move to Ciudad JuárezChapter 5: School in Ciudad JuárezChapter 6: Maquiladoras and ViolenceChapter 7: Leaving Ciudad JuárezChapter 8: The Missionary and the Beauty SchoolEpilogueNotesWorks CitedIndex

Product details

• Authors: Elaine Hampton, Elaine M. Hampton, HAMPTON ELAINE, Anay Palomeque de Carillo
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2013
• EAN: 9780292744264
• ISBN: 978-0-292-74426-4
• No. of pages: 181
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries