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Vasconcelos Medeiros, Hugo Augusto; Mello Neto, Ruy de Deus e; Mendes Catani, Afrânio – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2017
This paper is a discussion on the possibilities of educational democracy in Brazilian Graduate Education, with a focus on the current Graduate Education Field regulations and the recent affirmative actions and public policies of access. We analyzed laws, decrees, government plans and selections edicts, through categories derived from historical…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Democracy, Graduate Study, Field Experience Programs
Ana Paula Melo da Silva – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation studies college admissions in Brazil in the past two decades, a period characterized by a decline in the socioeconomic inequality in demand for higher education. The first chapter studies an affirmative action policy enacted at a flagship university in Brazil to lower the socioeconomic inequality in college access. I find…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences
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da Silva, Guilherme Henrique Gomes; Skovsmose, Ole – Power and Education, 2019
In this article, the authors interpret affirmative actions with reference to structural violence, which is accompanied by legitimizing discourses that tend to make discrimination appear natural and unquestionable. They illustrate the extension of structural violence in Brazilian society with particular reference to access to higher education. It…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Affirmative Action, Access to Education, Special Needs Students
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Schwartzman, Luisa Farah; Paiva, Angela Randolpho – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016
This paper examines how affirmative action in Brazilian public universities has evolved from the start of the new millennium up to recent years. After an overview of the existing policies in public universities, we explain these patterns based on an analysis of the processes internal and external to the universities. Although these policies were…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Race, Racial Bias, Higher Education
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Felicetti, Vera Lucia – International Education Studies, 2017
A training at Higher Education level needs, in addition to improve the skills specific in the area chosen, to develop a set of skills and/or personal attributes that make him or her more likely to succeed in the profession. In this context, this paper was developed and has the objective to identify the relationships between engagement,…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Affirmative Action, Minority Group Students, Access to Education
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Childs, Porsha; Stromquist, Nelly P. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
Since 2001, Brazilian universities have been implementing affirmative-action policies to correct the racial, social and ethnic disparities in university admissions. An examination of the social-inclusion policies at three public universities in Brazil--the University of Brasilia, the Federal University of Bahia and the State University of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Academic Achievement, Predictive Validity, College Entrance Examinations
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Oyarzún, Juan de Dios; Perales Franco, Cristina; McCowan, Tristan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
Indigenous groups in Latin America face a double exclusion from higher education, with low levels of access to institutions and little acknowledgement of their distinctive cultural and epistemological traditions within the curriculum. This article assesses current policies in Mexico and Brazil towards indigenous populations in higher education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Higher Education, Access to Education
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Kirakosyan, Lyusyena – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to address its drastic socioeconomic inequality and to compel its higher education institutions to diversify significantly while democratizing access to those schools. Brazil recently passed a sweeping affirmative action law requiring its public universities to reserve half of their available spots for…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Bloe, Diasmer – Educational Testing Service, 2015
In partnership with Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, Salzburg Global Seminar hosted an international strategic dialogue of 60 thought leaders, researchers, and practitioners from institutions serving marginalized populations to…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Higher Education, Access to Education, Student Diversity
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Francis, Andrew M.; Tannuri-Pianto, Maria – Journal of Human Resources, 2012
In 2004, the University of Brasilia established racial quotas. We find that quotas raised the proportion of black students, and that displacing applicants were from lower socioeconomic status families than displaced applicants. The evidence suggests that racial quotas did not reduce the preuniversity effort of applicants or students. Additionally,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Evidence, Affirmative Action, Quotas
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Francis, Andrew M.; Tannuri-Pianto, Maria – Economics of Education Review, 2012
This paper contributes to research on affirmative action by examining issues of equity in the context of racial quotas in Brazil. We study the experience of the University of Brasilia, which established racial quotas in 2004 reserving 20% of available admissions slots for students who self-identified as black. Based on university admissions data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affirmative Action, College Admission, Blacks
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Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth; da Silva, Maria Auxiliadora Lima Dias – World Journal of Education, 2011
This study explores the intercultural movements toward social justice in education in the Americas, most particularly, North America, and how U.S. multicultural movements and policies influence countries like Brazil. First we analyzed the movement toward multicultural practices to understand how those are developed both in the U.S., and in Brazil.…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Cultural Pluralism, Social Justice, Educational Policy
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Felicetti, Vera Lucia; Morosini, Marilia Costa; Somers, Patricia – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
This article is an overview of a doctoral dissertation which presents statements from graduates of the University for All Program (PROUNI) from a non-profit Brazilian university, who were admitted to university through this program. The methodology used was qualitative with a focus on textual analysis. The objective is to identify the outcomes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affirmative Action, Educational Quality, Graduates
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Moses, Michele S. – Educational Researcher, 2010
The author's primary aims are to clarify the differing rationales for affirmative action that have emerged in five nations--France, India, South Africa, the United States, and Brazil--and to make the case for the most compelling rationales, whether instrumentally or morally based. She examines the different social contexts surrounding the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, State Legislation, Affirmative Action, Foreign Countries
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Pedrosa, Renato H. L.; Dachs, J. Norberto W.; Maia, Rafael P.; Andrade, Cibele Y.; Carvalho, Benilton S. – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2007
This paper describes the results of a detailed study relating the performance of undergraduate students admitted to Brazil's State University of Campinas (Unicamp) from 1994 through 1997 and their socioeconomic and educational background. The study is based on a hierarchical model for the relevant variables involved. The main result is that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Disadvantaged, Program Effectiveness, Affirmative Action
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