Dora the Explorer adviser performs play about his life
Enactment aims to educate teachers on cultural strain
Posted: February 23, 2013 at 2:35 a.m.
NWA Media/MICHAEL WOODS --02/22/2013-- Carlos Cortes, Professor of History Emeritus at University of California Riverside performs his one-person play “A Conversation with Alana: One Boy’s Multicultural Rite of Passage.” Friday morning at the GuestHouse Hotel in Fayetteville during an ESL Symposium hosted by the University of Arkansas. The symposium also featured Joyce Nutta, an associate prof and ESL coordinator at the University of Central Florida, discussed “What’s Different About Differentiating for English Learners.”
An adviser to the popular children’s show Dora the Explorer can relate to the cultural tensions that face children of immigrant families.
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Northwest Arkansas, Pages 9 on 02/23/2013
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