Roundtable “Jornada de Enseñanza de Literatura en Inglés 2012”: Education of the Marginalized

Abstract

What I want to talk about relates a lot with what I have done in my research. I taught in middle schools, fifth to seven grades, and I have also taught third year at university. Where I teach in El Paso, almost 40% of the population is defined in the U.S. context as living in poverty. Many of those students come to our university, many of them. In fact, almost 90% of students at UTEP University come from El Paso region. The remaining 10-15% come from other places outside El Paso…