Trends and Debates in American Education - A Hispanic Perspective

Otto Federico von Feigenblatt

Sinopsis

The volume covers a range of topics related to American education from a Hispanic point of view. Legislative intervention in the teaching of social studies in Florida, critical race theory in education, strengths and weaknesses of the decentralized American education system, and the higher education of Hispanics in the United States, are some of the topics explored. The volume concludes with a critical interpretation of the shortage of teachers in the State of Florida at a time of great socioeconomic and political polarization in the United States of America, as a representative case of the central debates in education of the second decade of the twenty-first century.

Disponible desde: 01/06/2023.

Longitud de impresión: 110 páginas.

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