Presented here is a collection of the life stories of 15 famous Navajo leaders. The document explores the eventful, often tragic, history of the Navajo Tribe from the time of Narbona (1773), when Navajoland was Spanish territory, to the present. The document presents this historical account in a manner that reflects the pride and dignity of the…

Criteria applicable to all reading programs (and particularly to reading programs for Mexican-American children), regardless of philosophical or methodological differences among the various programs, are delineated. These criteria are listed and discussed in the form of the following nine questions: Has a good learning environment been…

Using methods developed in transformational generative grammar, three types of nominal constructions in Spanish are treated in this paper: Fact nominalizations ("[El] Escribir es agradable"), Manner nominalizations ("El tocar [de la mujer] es agradable"), and Abstract noun nominalizations ("La construccion rapida de esta escuela es dudosa"). While…

The author begins this paper with, "Let us recognize as axiomatic the statement that sentences in natural languages have the properties of structured, organic wholes." She feels that this statement has several important theoretical consequences, the most interesting (in so far as the current controversy over "surfacism" is…

Assessment within the SWRL English Language and Concepts Program for Spanish Speaking Children (LCS) consists of a placement aid, unit assessments, unit reviews, and an End of Program Assessment. All assessments are administered on a one-to-one basis. At the beginning of the school year, the LCS Placement Aid is administered for purposes of…

The final audit report (1972)73) on the Bilingual Education Program of the San Marcos Independent School District critiques the quality of the project and the audit. The 5 sections of the audit are: (1) introductory and general comments on the quality of the project evaluation and the comparative findings of the project evaluation and the audit;…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of Mexican American and Anglo American students toward speech types that represent different social and ethnic groups. The subjects were 88 Mexican American and 61 Anglo American students in the 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grades in 2 school systems. The technique used was the matched-guise…

This reference work lists books, periodicals articles, Rand reports, and other documents in five subject areas: (1) the Caribbean and Central America, (2) the Continent, (3) Cuba, (4) the Dominican Republic, and (5) United States policies. The introductory section focuses on reference aids. The majority of the entries date from 1960 through 1969.…

The 1968 booklet, a report by the National Advisory Committee on Mexican American Education, contains a brief description of the problems facing more than 5 million Mexican Americans in our society. According to the report, the failure of education has been the failure to recognize the needs of Mexican American students; this is evidenced by their…

This booklet uses cartoon characters to describe the process of creating textbooks, beginning with the idea in the mind of the author to the point when the book reaches the user. The basic processes in book publication are considered in an effort to foster the proper care of and interest in books. (VM)

This paper offers some theoretical proposals for a radical re-thinking of educational theory. Rather than offering concrete methods for reform, it seeks to point out the general direction for change if education is to strive toward the liberation of man. The relationship of man to history, culture, and knowledge is considered, as is the role of…

The specific goals of this study were: (1) to develop a survey instrument for both the English and Spanish speaking that would be understood easily and be nonthreatening; (2) through the use of community representatives, select "items" to be included in the questionnaire that would be particularly relevant to the needs and problems of…

A variety of oral folk material from Mexican sources is presented in this anthology. The 114 selections are derived from the various genres available and from traditional as well as newer formations. The selections include folktales, jests and anecdotes, legends and beliefs, beliefs about popular medicine, prayers, verses, children's games and…

This project was conceived to scientifically factor the elements of importance and then to formulate library systems concepts that would have short and long range meaning to the Mexican American community. A three phase program was initiated to achieve these objectives. The first phase was a seven group survey to determine (1) how many Mexican…

The discussion of Spanish verbs considers the problems of tense and aspect. Two tenses are used in the description: past and non-past. The past tense is considered the marked member and the non-past the unmarked member. Aspect is considered in terms of "telic" verbs which express an action tending towards a goal, and "atelic" verbs which do not…