2a Latin America Intro

a)Interdisciplinary Studies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinary is a term of art in several professions concerned with education and training that refers to the qualities of studies that cut across several established disciplines or traditional fields of study. This involves researchers, students, and teachers in the goals of connecting and integrating several academic disciplines, professions, or technologies, along with their specific perspectives, in the pursuit of a common task.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinary
involving two or more academic, scientific, or artistic disciplines

b) Latin America
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=27284
the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. The 20 republics are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The term Latin America is also used to include Puerto Rico, the French West Indies, and other islands of the West Indies where a Romance tongue is spoken. Occasionally the term is used to include Belize, Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America
Latin America is the region of the Americas where Romance languages, those derived from Latin, and in particular Spanish and Portuguese, are primarily spoken.

c) Countries that make up Latin America
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.

d) Countries that make up the Caribbean
Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands and Virgin Islands.

e) 1. Brazil has more than 55 National Parks and more than 1700 species of birds
2. Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias was awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature

f) 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyFZ0peN7sg
I believe that this is a reputable source because it has well known supporters and sponsors involved with it.
2. http://www.eslteachersboard.com/cgi-bin/latin-america/index.pl?noframes;read=640
I do not see anything stating that they are certified to be giving this information so it makes me wonder if they are a reputable source.

g) I notice that generally, most people taking this class are fullfilling their GE requirements.
1. Casandre and I both live very close to the SRJC campus
2. Nanette also wants to learn more about the Latin American culture.

Project 1C

Jessica
1. Jessica is interested in learning more about the culture and values of Latin America and the Caribbean.
2. I learned from Jessica's research that Freire was responsible for education in a city in Latin America and that he is a world leader in the struggle for the liberation of the poorest of the poor.

Nanette
1. Nanette lives about 1 mile from the SRJC
2. From Nanette I learned that Freire believed in an emphasis on dialogue in education and that he was well known for the "Bare Feet Can Also Learn to Read" campaign, where he worked with 300 sugarcane sharecroppers in Angicos.

Project 1B

Paulo Freire

1. Paulo Freire is a Brazilian educationalist who had a great impact on informal and popular education with his ideas of progressive practive. He wrote a book entitled Pedagogy of the Oppressed dealing with the issue of unfit education.

2. One of his beliefs is to help men and women overcome their sense of powerlessness to act in their own behalf.

3. After the military coup d'etat of 1964, Freire was put in jail by the new government and was eventually forced into a political exile that lasted for fifteen years.

Sources:

http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm

http://www3.nl.edu/academics/cas/ace/resources/paulofreire.cfm

http://www.education.miami.edu/ep/contemporaryed/Paulo_Freire/paulo_freire.html

Project 1A

1. Rebekah
2. I am taking this class to fulfill my GE requirement
3. I live 2.70 miles from the SRJC main campus
4. I hope to learn more about a culture that our society is so integrated with
5. I have created a blog before. It was years ago and I never use it.