Participation on the Margins of Immigrant Women’s Lives and Learnings

This study focuses on the participation and learning of five women immigrants in the Northwest US and the ways community-based organisations (CBOs) operated in their work and community lives. The study points to the ways that the women became assertive at work, moved from the private into the public sphere, and developed caring literacies in their communities

Hugging the Middle

In the last quarter-century and especially the last decade, testing and accountability have come to dominate education policy at the state and national levels. The common concern about the effects of such testing is that it reshapes teaching in the classroom. But such claims do not look at the evidence of deeper classroom structures (the mix of teacher-centered and student-centered practices) in historical context. This article extends historical research in How Teachers Taught (Cuban, 1993) to the present in three metropolitan school districts. While testing and accountability have become more obvious concerns of teachers, the hybridized classroom environment documented in How Teachers Taught have become more pervasive. This article documents this continuing ubiquity and addresses the apparent inconsistency between evidence of a hybridized classroom environment and the unintended consequences of testing and accountability

Making Public Schools Business-Like… Again

A contracting firm in New York City employed 4,900 skilled mechanics direct from Europe, paying them fifty cents per day above the union rate, because it was impossible to secure such valuable workmen in our greatest industrial center

A Critique of the Transmission Model of Functional Health Literacy

The author will explore the concept of functional health literacy through a critical analysis of the definition. Derived from a medical model, it serves as an information commodity within a human capital approach to literacy and healthcare, transmitting particular information, and reinforcing compliance with the existing system

Miami International Guitart Festival 2018

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Call for Applications 2018 Diaz-Ayala Library Travel Grants

The Cuban Research Institute (CRI), the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC), and the Florida International University Libraries are pleased to request applications from scholars and graduate students for the Diaz-Ayala Library Travel Grants for spring and early summer 2018.These awards are offered in honor of Crist6bal Diaz-Ayala, the prominent music collector and independent scholar who donated his Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection to FlU in 2001.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1428/thumbnail.jp

The Nordic Green Economy

An international consensus about the need of a new sustainable economic model, where a good economy and a healthy environment are mutually beneficial, has been reached by now. A series of intergovernmental working groups and state-led initiatives already advance sustainable economies. The Nordic countries are a vanguard in this respect, and have led the international community in adopting Green Economy policies. Join the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs for a panel made up of governmental representatives from the five Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland). This panel will present some of the ideas behind the Green Economy model and how these ideas can be implemented elsewhere, including in the United States. This event is presented on the occasion of the release of the volume Nordic Ways (Johns Hopkins University/Brookings Institution, 2016), which explores what it means to be Nordic in entrepreneurship, the arts, culture, innovation, education and a commitment to democratic values and environmental sustainability.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1434/thumbnail.jp

Call for Applications Diaz-Ayala Library Travel Grants

The Cuban Research Institute (CRI), the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC), and the Florida International University Libraries are pleased to request applications from scholars and graduate students for the Diaz-Ayala LibraryTravel Grants for spring and early summer 2017.These awards are offered in honor of Cristobal Diaz-Ayala, the prominent music collector and independent scholar who donated his Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection to FIU in 2001. The grants provide scholars and graduate students the opportunity to conduct research in the special collections and archives related to Cuba and Cuban Americans at the FIU Green Library, thereby expanding access to its unique holdings and enhancing their value as national resources. CRI, LACC, and the FIU Libraries are offering three research travel grants of up to $2,000 each to offset the costs of a minimum one-week stay to use the collections. Scholars and graduate students in the humanities and the social sciences whose work will be enhanced by using the resources of the collection are encouraged to apply. Two of the awards will be given to U.S.-based scholars or graduate students, in accordance with the requirements of LACC\u27s U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant. Those residing in other countries are encouraged to apply for the remaining grant. To download the grant guidelines and application form, please visit the CRI website at https://cri.fiu.edu/programs/library-travel-grants/. For more information, please call 305-348-1991 or write [email protected]://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1351/thumbnail.jp

Eleventh Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies Beyond Perpetual Antagonism: Reimagining U.S.-Cuba Relations

The Cuban Research Institute (CRI) af Florida International University is pleased to announce its 11 th Conference. The conference main theme, Beyond Perpetual Antagonism: Reimagining U.S.-Cuba Relations, will address a array of cultural, social, economic, and political topics related to the often complex and conflicting links between the two countries, both historically and in current times.Throughout the three-day event, over 200 scholars and students from the United States and other countries will participate in 45 panels, representing a broad spectrum of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences, including literature, music, the arts, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics. Registration is required to attend the event. Registration fees are detailed below and include three continental breakfasts, coffee, one reception, admission to an evening film screening, and all conference materials.To register and to obtain more information, please call (305) 348-1991, write [email protected], or visit our website (cri.fiu.edu).https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1349/thumbnail.jp

Memories of Underdevelopment

The Sunday 1:00pm screening of the 50th anniversary 4K restoration of the film will be introduced by Alejandro Rios, host of the weekly television program La Mirada Indiscreta (The Indiscreet Gaze), now in its tenth year. Mr. Rios will lean a discussion of the film with the audience.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1429/thumbnail.jp