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Children on the streets of the Americas : homelessness, education, and globalization in the United States, Brazil, and Cuba / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, ed.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mickelson R a Staff, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Street children--Brazil--Social conditions.
- Street children.
- Street children--Cuba--Social conditions.
- Street children--United States--Social conditions.
- Street children--Education--Brazil.
- Street children--Education--Cuba.
- Street children--Education--United States.
- Street children--Services for--Brazil--Case studies.
- Street children--Services for--Cuba--Case studies.
- Street children--Services for--United States--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A study of living conditions and educational experiences of homeless children in the United States, Brazil, and Cuba. Taking a political economy perspective formal and informal programmes are compared; case studies are given.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Globalization, Childhood Poverty, and Education in the Americas; Families, Schools, and the Socialization of Brazilian Children: Contemporary Dilemmas That Create Street Children; Schooling and ~Clean Streets~ in Socialist Cuba: Children and the Special Period; The Education of Homeless Children and Youth in the United States: A Progress Report; A New Paradigm for Social Change: Social Movements and the Transformation of Policy for Street and Working Children in Brazil
- Dependency Served: Rhetorical Assumptions Governing the Education of Homeless Children and Youth in the United StatesEducating Homeless Children in the United States: An Overview of Legal Entitlements and Federal Protections; From Discourse to Reality: A Profile of the Lives and an Estimate of the Number of Street Children and Adolescents in Brazil; Standards, Curriculum Reform, and the Educational Experiences of One Homeless Youngster: Some Reflections; Restructuring Childhood in Cuba: The State as Family
- From Church Basement to Mainstream Classroom: The Evolution of A Child's Place in Charlotte, North CarolinaProjeto Axe: Educating Excluded Children in Salvador; Projeto Semear: Equalizing Opportunities for Adolescents at Risk in Rio de Janeiro; The ~Magnet School~ for the Homeless: A Worst-Case Scenario; Programa Curumim: A Program for At-Risk Children in the Industrial Heartland; Improving Education for Homeless Students with Disabilities in the United States; Children of Undocumented Immigrants: An Invisible Minority among Homeless Students
- Hungry Hearts: Runaway and Homeless Youth in the United StatesCivic Invisibility, Marginality, and Moral Exclusion: The Murders of Street Youth in Brazil; Children on the Streets of the Americas: Implications for Social Policy and Educational Practice; Afterword; Contributors; Glossary; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-00185-1
- 0-203-90015-4
- 0-585-45206-7
- 1-280-40699-2
- 1-134-00186-X
- 9780203900154
- OCLC:
- 57027318
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