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Julio Bertolin; Orlanda Tavares; Cristina Sin – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2024
This article analyses whether Brazilian graduates feel that their higher education programmes have contributed to the development of civic competences (ethics, critical thinking and respect for diversity), necessary to become active citizens in a democratic and fair society. The analysis considers disciplines and students' socioeconomic and…
Descriptors: Ethics, Democratic Values, Social Justice, Citizen Participation
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Haddad, Sergio – Adult Learning, 2012
This article analyzes the participation of civil society in the Sixth International Conference on Adult Education held in Belem do Para, Brazil, 1-4 December 2009. As a foundation, the discussion first illuminates the important role that civil society in general plays in democratic issues and the relation between the state and society followed by…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Democratic Values
Woods, Philip A., Ed.; Woods, Glenys J., Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
This is a unique collection of leading examples of education grounded in alternative philosophies and cultures--from initiatives to create more democratic schools, through Quaker, Buddhist, Islamic, Montessori and Steiner/Waldorf schools, to Maori and First Nations education in Canada and Palestinian Jewish schools in Israel. Aimed at educational…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Rural Schools, Nontraditional Education, Jews