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Neo-Fascism and the Public University: The Brazilian Conjuncture in the Bolsonaro Government
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Carnut, Leonardo – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2021
The examination of neo-fascism, especially in Latin American countries such as Brazil requires the examination of some differences that make the expression of the phenomenon irreplicable in social backgrounds as different as in Brazil. Thus, the objective of this article was to problematize the contemporary socio-political configuration of Brazil…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes, State Universities
Let's Begin with Ourselves: Attempting Resonance Responses in the Exchange of Researchers' Professional Autobiographies
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Padilla-Petry, Paulo; Hernández-Hernández, Fernando; Creus, Amalia – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014
The economic, social, cultural, technological and labour changes experienced by Spanish universities in the last 40?years have had their impact on the professional lives of the university teachers. Our methodological decision to study, through the construction of life histories, how scholars cope with social and institutional changes in their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Social Change, Organizational Change
Towards a Political Ecology of Education: The Educational Politics of Scale in Southern Pará, Brazil
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Meek, David – Environmental Education Research, 2015
Social movements have initiated both academic programs and disciplines. I present ethnographic data that I gathered during 17 months of fieldwork with the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement (MST) in southeastern Pará, Brazil, to explore the MST's role in creating agroecological education opportunities. My analysis highlights three factors in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Social Action, Educational Change
Toward an Understanding of the Democratic Reconceptualization of Physical Education Teacher Education in Post-Military Brazil
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Da Matta, Gylton; Richards, K. Andrew R.; Hemphill, Michael A. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: Teacher education, including physical education teacher education (PETE), around the world remains highly autocratic and content focused [Apple, M. W. 2000. "Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age." New York: Routledge]. Scholars in physical education [O'Sullivan, M., D. Siedentop, and L. F. Locke.…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Social Change, Critical Theory
Becoming University Scholars: Inside Professional Autoethnographies
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Hernandez, Fernando; Sancho, Juana Maria; Creus, Amalia; Montane, Alejandra – Journal of Research Practice, 2010
This article shows part of the results of a research project: The Impact of Social Change in Higher Education Staff Professional Life and Work (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, SEJ2006-01876). The main aim of this project was to explore and understand how scholars establish a dialogue, resist, adapt themselves or adopt changes, in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Research Projects, Participatory Research
Questions That Make a Difference: Experiences in Brazil and Tanzania.
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Engberg, Lila E. – Canadian Home Economics Journal, 1996
A home economist's experiences consulting at a Brazilian university and giving a workshop for government field workers in Tanzania revealed significant differences in the concerns. Community workers deliberated on issues of social change related to daily work; the academics were more concerned with following prescribed research methodology than…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Organizations, Consultants, Foreign Countries