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Guilherme Strifezzi Leal; Álvaro Choi – Education Economics, 2023
The effects of affirmative action on the incentives to human capital accumulation are ambiguous from a theoretical perspective and the scarce empirical evidence on the matter provides mixed results. In this paper, we address this issue by investigating the impacts of Brazil's Law of Quotas on the students' performance in the college entrance exam,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Race, College Admission, Admission Criteria
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Windle, Joel Austin; Fonseca Afonso, Érica – Critical Studies in Education, 2022
This paper seeks to identify strategies for anti-racist higher education, drawing on scholarship that locates structural racism in global and local centre-periphery relations. We first examine how the centre-periphery divide has been identified and challenged in anti-racist intellectual and political movements, focusing on exchanges and solidarity…
Descriptors: Racism, Social Justice, Inclusion, Higher Education
Oliveira, Rodrigo; Santos, Alei; Severnini, Edson R. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Affirmative action in higher education can lead to mismatch, where students admitted through preferential treatment struggle academically due to inadequate preparation before college. Although some students may face initial challenges, by providing access to quality education for talented individuals who might have otherwise been overlooked due to…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Higher Education, College Admission, Access to Education
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Gururaj, Suchitra; Somers, Patricia; Fry, Jessica; Watson, Del; Cicero, Francesca; Morosini, Marilia; Zamora, Jennifer – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
Social inclusion policy in higher education--also referenced as affirmative action, reservations, schedules, or antidiscrimination--has been used widely to promote equity and access for minority and historically discriminated subgroups who wish to participate in tertiary education. Inclusion is often protected de jure through a country's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Affirmative Action, Educational Policy
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Soares, Ricardo; Santiago de Mello, Márcia Cristina; Naegele, Rafaela – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
In December 2019, the institutional affirmative action "Onde elas estão?" ("Where are they?") was launched for the mitigation of gender inequality in the STEM disciplines in Brazil, coincidentally in the same period which the first reports of the COVID-19 pandemic appeared in the city of Wuhan, China. Unfortunately, when…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Chemistry
Pulley, Tonya Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The United States and Brazil have histories of colonization, slavery, and racial inequalities. In addition, both countries have adjudicated cases centered on the use of affirmative action admissions policies in higher education but with differing results. The constitutional court of Brazil, the Supremo Tribunal Federal, ruled universities could…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affirmative Action, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Analysis
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de Oliveira, Clarissa Tochetto; Haddad, Emily Jean; Dias, Ana Cristina Garcia; Teixeira, Marco Antônio Pereira; Koller, Sílvia Helena – Journal of College Student Development, 2018
We tested differences in college adjustment between students admitted to a Brazilian undergraduate university through the standard entrance process (nonquota students), and those admitted under the affirmative action selection process (quota students). Participants consisted of 494 college students (27.1% quota students) from 2 public universities…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Foreign Countries, Student Adjustment, Undergraduate Students
Caue de Castro Dobbin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is a collection of three essays in Public Economics. The first chapter studies the optimal design of student loans as a lever to foster the inclusion of poor students in private colleges in Brazil. The second chapter delves into understanding the consequences of affirmative action as a tool to increase the participation of…
Descriptors: Economics, Economic Factors, Educational Finance, Student Loan Programs
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Riccomini, Fernanda Edileuza; Cirani, Claudia Brito Silva; de Carvalho, Carolina Corrêa; Storopoli, José Eduardo – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to characterize the trends for educational innovation in higher education in Brazil, constructing a conceptual model of innovation trends in the sector. Design/methodology/approach: A preliminary profile online was done with 76 experts in university education, and 17 were contacted for in-depth perceptions.…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries
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Lee, Justine H. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2021
Following months of debate in 2012, Brazilian President Rousseff signed the Quota Law establishing quotas for the percentages of Black, Brown, and indigenous public secondary school students that public universities must enroll. Guided by a social dominance theory framework, this paper examines the extent to which such a policy can challenge an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Affirmative Action, Secondary School Students
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Bernardino-Costa, Joaze; De Carli Blackman, Ana Elisa – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
This article highlights the black movement's centrality to building anti-racist universities in Brazil. It examines the questioning of the racial democracy myth within Brazilian universities as well as in the Brazilian mainstream media since the beginning of the new millennium. This debate was referred to the Supreme Court, which affirmed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Social Justice, Affirmative Action
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Windle, Joel – Comparative Education, 2022
This paper examines educational segregation in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro through the lens of a multifaceted centreperiphery relationship involving geographical, racial and historical dimensions. The paper first situates Brazilian racial inequalities historically, drawing on decolonial theory, before examining student enrolment patterns…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Racial Segregation, Political Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Taylor, Alice Y. – Ethnography and Education, 2022
Youth movements rose in Brazil in the past decade, fighting for equitable access to education alongside plural -- anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and feminist -- struggles. This article examines interactions by which Brazilian youth activists organise, politicise, and define who constitutes a movement. It focuses on a 2019 public hearing to defend…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Activism
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Ress, Susanne – Comparative Education Review, 2018
Official rhetorics often highlight horizontality, solidarity, and shared interests as features of South-South cooperation (SSC), but scholars have argued that tensions shape SSC as much as North-South development relations. This study examines the Brazilian SSC discourse and its everyday practices. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at a newly…
Descriptors: Race, Political Issues, Ethnography, Discourse Analysis
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Dias Lopes, Alice – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
This paper aims to understand which fields of study affirmative action students graduated at the undergraduate level in public universities in Brazil in 2009 and 2010. Public universities began expanding access for underrepresented groups through racial, economic, and social affirmative action policies in 2001. The existing literature on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affirmative Action, Social Justice, Undergraduate Study
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