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South Epistemologies to Invent Post-Pandemic Science Education
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Rezende, Flavia; Ostermann, Fernanda; Guerra, Andreia – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2021
Besides being a country with high inequality, Brazil faces an alarming sociohistorical moment in which the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is exacerbating a disastrous political situation that promotes polarization and social division. The context of this situation is described here through a critical lens, as a justification for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Bias, COVID-19, Pandemics
The Democratic Management of the Public School in Contexts of Local Educational Reforms: A Comparative Study between Brazil and Spain
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Batista, Neusa Chaves; Pereyra, Miguel A. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Democratic management as a way of organizing the public school can be translated in its contemporary historicity as a collective action that demands changes in the autocratic and hierarchical structure of the school unit. In this article, we analyze the process of constructing legislation on democratic school management in contexts of local…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Administration, Democratic Values, Educational Change
Recontextualising Race, Politics and Inequality in Transnational Knowledge Circulation: Biographical Resignifications
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Windle, Joel – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2020
This article examines shifts in the meaning and relevance of institutionalised knowledge about social inequalities as it circulates globally. In so doing, it contributes to research critiquing an unequal geopolitics of knowledge that grants greatest authority to theories produced in the global north (Connell, 2007; Mignolo, 2003). I discuss the…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Criticism, Ethnography, Power Structure
Popular Education in Solidarity Economy
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de Melo Neto, José Francisco; da Costa, Francisco Xavier Pereira – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2015
This article seeks to show the relation between popular education and solidarity economy in experiences of solidarity economy enterprises in Brazil. It is based on diverse experiences which have occurred in various sectors of this economy, highlighting those experiences which took place in João Pessoa with the creation of a Cooperative of Workers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Popular Education, Global Approach, Social Systems
Brazilian Higher Education from a Post-Colonial Perspective
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Leite, Denise – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2010
This article examines Brazilian higher education (HE) politics from a post-colonial perspective. The term "post-colonial" originally referred to a historical period of colonial empires established by European nations. Nowadays, the term commonly distinguishes a field of contemporary studies of "defamiliarisation of the imperial…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Epistemology
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) (Madrid, Spain, October 19-21, 2012)
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International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers