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Children on the streets of the Americas : homelessness, education, and globalization in the United States, Brazil, and Cuba

Author: Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Case studies
Cas, Études de
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
ISBN: 0415923212 9780415923217 0415923220 9780415923224 9780203900154 0203900154
OCLC Number: 41035438
Description: 300 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents: Globalization, childhood poverty, and education in the Americas / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson --
Families, schools, and the socialization of Brazilian children / Nelly Moulin & Vilma Pereira --
Schooling and 'Clean streets' in socialist Cuba : children and the special period / Sheryl L. Lutjens --
The education of homeless children and youth in the United States / James H. Stronge --
A new paradigm for social change : social movements and the transformation of policy for street and working children in Brazil / Steven J. Klees ... [et al.] --
Dependency served : rhetorical assumptions governing the education of homeless children and youth in the United States / Irving Epstein --
Educating homeless children in the United States : an overview of legal entitlements and Federal protections / Yvonne Rafferty --
From discourse to reality : a profile of the lives and an estimate of the number of street children and adolescents in Brazil / Fúlvia Rosemberg --
Standards, curriculum reform, and the educational experiences of one homeless youngster / Rebecca Newman & Lynn Gillespie Beck --
Reconstructing childhood in Cuba : the state as family / Sheryl L. Lutjens --
From church basement to mainstream classroom : the evolution of a child's place in Charlotte, North Carolina / María Grace Yon and R.A. Mickelson --
Projeto Axé : educating excluded children in Salvador / Fernanda Gonca̧lves Almeida and Inaiá María Moreira de Carvalho --
Breaking the cycle : educating New York's homeless children and their families / Ralph da Costa Nuñez --
Projeto Semear : equalizing opportunities for adolescents at risk in Rio de Janeiro / Amelia María Noronba Pessoa de Queiroz and Ligia Gomes Elliot --
The "Magnet School" for the homeless : a worst-case scenario / Jean Anyon --
Programa curumim : a program for at-risk children in the industrial heartland / Murillo Tadeu Moreira Silva --
Improving education for homeless students with disabilities in the United States / Lori Korinek ... [et al.] --
Children of undocumented immigrants : an invisible minority among homeless students --
Ana Huerta-Mac'ias ... [et al.] --
Hungry hearts : runaway and homeless youth in the United States / Marc Posner --
Civic invisibility, marginality, and moral exclusion : the murders of street youth in Brazil / Martha K. Huggins & Myriam Mesquita --
Children on the streets of the Americas / R.A. Mickelson.
Responsibility: Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, ed.
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