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Peer reviewedGandin, Luis Armando; Apple, Michael W. – Social Justice, 2002
Examines how negotiating local control of schooling can be an effective force of resistance against the market-economy paradigm of education, describing the policies of the popular administration in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Focuses on the Citizen School, "which provides quality education to impoverished people." Also examines proposals that…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Democracy, Educational Change, Educational Policy
