Children on the streets of the Americas
Subtitle: homelessness, education, and globalization in the United States, Brazil, and Cuba
By: edited by Roslyn Arlin Mickelson.
Contributors: Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin, 1948-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Street children -- Brazil -- Social conditions; 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
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Globalization, childhood poverty, and education in the Americas / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson; title: Families, schools, and the socialization of Brazilian children / Nelly Moulin & Vilma Pereira; title: Schooling and 'Clean streets' in socialist Cuba : children and the special period / Sheryl L. Lutjens; title: The education of homeless children and youth in the United States / James H. Stronge; title: 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.]; title: Dependency served : rhetorical assumptions governing the education of homeless children and youth in the United States / Irving Epstein; title: Educating homeless children in the United States : an overview of legal entitlements and Federal protections / Yvonne Rafferty; title: From discourse to reality : a profile of the lives and an estimate of the number of street children and adolescents in Brazil / Fúlvia Rosemberg; title: Standards, curriculum reform, and the educational experiences of one homeless youngster / Rebecca Newman & Lynn Gillespie Beck; title: Restructing childhood in Cuba : the state as family / Sheryl L. Lutjens; title: From church basement to mainstream classrom : the evolution of a child's place in Charlotte, North Carolina / María Grace Yon and Roslyn Arlin Mickelson; title: Projeto Axé : educating excluded children in Salvador / Fernanda Gonca̧lves Almeida and Inaiá María Moreira de Carvalho; title: Breaking the cycle : educating New York's homeless children and their families / Ralph da Costa Nuñez; title: Projeto Semear : equalizing opportunities for adolescents at risk in Rio de Janeiro / Amelia María Noronba Pessoa de Queiroz and Ligia Gomes Elliot; title: The "Magnet School" for the homeless : a worst-case scenario / Jean Anyon; title: Programa curumim : a program for at-risk children in the industrial heartland / Murilo Tadeu Moreira Silva; title: Improving education for homeless students with disabilities in the United States / Lori Korinek ... [et al.]; title: Children of undocumented immigrants : an invisible minority among homeless students; title: Ana Huerta-Mac'ias...[et al.]; title: Hungry hearts : runaway and homeless youth in the United States / Marc Posner; title: Civic invisibility, marginality, and moral exclusion : the murders of street youth in Brazil / Martha K. Huggins & Myriam Mesquita; title: Children on the streets of the Americas / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson.