The struggle for freedom : 1770 to 1870.

Forma parte de una serie que estudia la historia del hombre negro y de sus logros en la historia mundial. En este recurso se examina la dispersión de la población africana por todo el mundo como consecuencia de la trata de esclavos y la creación de comunidades negras en el Mar Caribe y en las costas del Norte y Sur de America; la dura vida de los esclavos en las plantaciones de Virginia, una de las primeras colonias británicas en Norteamérica. También, estudia la oposición a la esclavitud tras la independencia de las colonias americanas y la redacción de la Constitución de 1789; las rebeliones de los esclavos en el Caribe y su huida hacia los estados proabolicionistas y, la extensión de la emancipación, en el siglo XIX, por distintos países: Gran Bretaña, Estados Unidos, España y Portugal.

Thirty-three ways to help with spelling : supporting children who struggle with basic skills.

Recurso para ayudar a los niños que tienen dificultades en el aprendizaje de la ortografía. Ofrece actividades y juegos para atraer a los alumnos y fomentar la motivación en el aula. Estas ideas prácticas incorporan una variedad de estilos de aprendizaje, utilizando técnicas de lenguaje corporal y auditivo. Aunque dirigido principalmente a alumnos de primaria, también puede utilizarse en la enseñanza secundaria. Las actividades se agrupan en diferentes competencias básicas, para que los maestros puedan elegir la actividad que mejor se adapte a las necesidades del niño.

The Struggle for identity in modern literature.

Selección de textos modernos sobre el tema de "la lucha por la identidad", de diferentes géneros (prosa, teatro, poesía), orientados a alumnos de enseñanza secundaria. Incluye una introducción sobre el contexto del desarrollo de la literatura moderna; notas explicativas de las alusiones históricas y literarias; una sección de interpretaciones de los textos que permite a los lectores establecer comparaciones, estimulando el debate de ideas, el uso del lenguaje y el pensamiento crítico; y un apartado con preguntas para que los alumnos se familiaricen con los textos y se preparen para los exámenes.

Fifty Years After Angicos : Paulo Freire, Popular Education and the Struggle for a Better World that is Possible

The main thesis of this paper is that Freire’s original experience in Angicos anticipated a grand design for social transformation of educational systems. As such it brought together two key concepts that formulated the basis of his educational system: popular culture as an counter-hegemonic project and popular education, more particularly what was later called citizen schools or public popular education as keystone of his new educational system. I use the term Paulo Freire System to show that his original attempts were not only to challenge pedagogical the prevailing banking education system that was so pervasive in Brazil and Latin American at the time. In challenging the hegemony of banking education, its narrative, theoretical foundations, epistemology and methodology, Freire and his team sought to create a new system that could replace the old one. They saw banking education not only as obsolete in terms of modernization of systems but also oppressive in gnoseological, epistemological and political terms. In the conclusion of this paper I will discuss the twins obsessions of Freire, already present in the Angicos experience and that will stay with him throughout his life: the relationship between democracy, citizenship and education, and education as a postcolonial ethical act of social transformation. I would like to emphasize therefore that the Paulo Freire system, as conceived in the Angicos experience and its aftermath was a much larger and comprehensive system that originally considered, even by his critics.

Impegno nero: Italian intellectuals and the African-American struggle

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. Drawing on the work of many of the leading figures in postwar Italian culture, including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini, this essay argues that Italian intellectual impegno—defined as the effort to remake Italian culture and to guide Italian social reform—was united with a significant investment in the African-American cause. The author terms this tendency impegno nero and traces its development in the critical reception of African-American writers including W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright. Postwar impegno nero is then contrasted with the treatment of African-American themes under Fascism, when commentators had likewise condemned American racism, but had paradoxically linked their laments for the plight of African Americans with defenses of the racial policies of the Fascist regime. Indeed, Fascist colonialism and anti-Semitism were both justified through references to what Fascist intellectuals believed to be America’s greater injustices. After 1945, in contrast, Italian intellectuals advocated an international, interdependent campaign for justice, symbolizing national reforms by projecting them onto an emblematic America. In this way, impegno nero revived and revised the celebrated "myth of America" that had developed in Italy between the world wars. Advancing a new, postwar myth, Italian intellectuals adopted the African-American struggle in order to reinforce their own efforts in the ongoing struggle for justice in Italy.

Class Struggle, Elitism and Social Collectivism in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross : A Marxist Approach

Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross represents both an insightful interpretation and a scathing critique of Kenyan politics and society during the period of neo-colonialism. The present thesis aims to explore, with the help of Marxist ideology and criticism, the relevance of the issues of class struggle, elitism and social collectivism in the novel. At the same time, this study will attempt to define Devil on the Cross as a "national allegory" depicting situations that are common to almost all post-colonial societies, and in particular, how the novel's ideological and political commitment is an important feature as it reflects Ngugi’s effort to draw attention to how Kenya and Africa as a whole suffered from imperialism, neo-colonialism, and a corrupt and greedy capitalist society.

The Bird and its Flight: A Struggle for Freedom in Bulgakov's Master and Margarita

The Russian senior seminar this semester focused on Bulgakov’s famous novel, Master and Margarita. This presentation focuses on one of the themes of the novel, specifically Bulgakov’s use of birds in his work. Birds appear numerous times in Master and Margarita, and it always has a connotation of either a lack of freedom or a recent achievement of this goal. There are even instances in which characters themselves, as they seek freedom from their former oppressive lives, become the “birds” in the novel. This paper is an exploration of bird imagery in the novel.