The volume covers a range of topics related to American education from a Hispanic point of view. Legislative intervention in the teaching of social studies in Florida, critical race theory in education, strengths and weaknesses of the decentralized American education system, and the higher education of Hispanics in the United States, are some of the topics explored. The volume concludes with a critical interpretation of the shortage of teachers in the State of Florida at a time of great socioeconomic and political polarization in the United States of America, as a representative case of the central debates in education of the second decade of the twenty-first century.

El volumen cubre una gama de temas relacionados con la educación americana desde un punto de vista hispano. Intervención legislativa en la enseñanza de los estudios sociales en Florida, teoría racial crítica en la educación, fortalezas y debilidades del sistema descentralizado de educación americano, y la educación superior de hispanos en Estados Unidos son algunos de los temas explorados. El volumen concluye con una interpretación crítica de la escasez de maestros en el Estado de Florida en un momento de gran polarización socioeconómica y política en Estados Unidos, como un caso representativo de los debates centrales en la educación de la segunda década del siglo XXI.

The Spanish nobility continues to be influential in the early 21st century in politics, academia, and the economy. The polarized socio-cultural environment in Spain in the early decades of the millennium is paralleled by an increasingly divisive political discourse and deadlock in terms of governance. Understanding the subcultures of the most influential socio-political groups is important to be able to interpret the political developments. A vast array of studies have been conducted about the rise of the extreme left but there is a dearth of studies dealing with the impact of the traditional nobility in contemporary Spain. The present study presents an emic model of elite culture through the application of a grounded theory approach to texts released by five of the main noble associations in Spain during the last ten years. An inductive approach focuses on the identification of important themes and concepts as expressed and understood by the participants. Traditional noble associations are the focus of the study, in particular, the associations under Royal patronage. The resulting emic model aims to map the mores, norms, and values of a highly visible social group about which there are very few sociological and anthropological studies.