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Fabio Cerqueira Campos – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Solid and resilient democracies rest upon an informed citizenry capable of critiquing societal issues and reimagining alternative scenarios. Traditional school-based civic and social justice education, however, often falls short of addressing the diverse needs of today's youth, often relying on instructionist pedagogies focused on factual…
Descriptors: Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Criticism, Citizen Participation
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Nick Turnbull; Shaun Wilson; Greg Agoston – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
The transformation of higher education provision by neoliberal values has been well documented. However, recent criticisms and even attacks upon higher education indicate a new politics extending beyond neoliberalism. This article draws on the sociology of conventions to unpick the distinctions at work in these new criticisms of universities. By…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Assessment, Neoliberalism, Productivity
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Alexandre Weingrill Araujo – Critical Education, 2023
This paper aims at discussing the characteristics of the Brazilian K-12 educational system using contributions from the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. His writings about education discuss the effects of unequal distribution of educational opportunities among students of different social classes and the consequences of this inequality on the…
Descriptors: Marxian Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices
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Veiga-Neto, Alfredo; Lopes, Maura Corcini – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2017
This article discusses the displacement observed in the Brazilian mainstream pedagogical ideas and how Foucauldian studies play a role in shaping new ways of thinking, thus contributing for a change in such a scenario. In order to do so, a shift in the interpretative dominant educational discourse, mainly in Brazil, is necessary. The main idea is…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Role
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Clarissa Jordão; Nayara Stefanie Mandarino Silva – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
Language without Borders was initiated by the Brazilian Federal Government and has undergone a series of modifications until its discontinuation as a government-sponsored program, when it was taken up by the academic community as a free enterprise. Currently, it is linked to Andifes (National Association of Directors of Federal Institutions of…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
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Hewitt, W. E. – Higher Education Politics & Economics, 2021
International and national university ranking exercises have attracted increasing criticism in recent years, as observers question the integrity of the methodologies employed, the influence of rankings on institutional decision making, and ultimately the utility of the exercise. At the same time, for stakeholders "per se" rankings can…
Descriptors: Reputation, Equal Education, Social Differences, Foreign Countries
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Bodart, Cristiano das Neves; Pires, Welkson – Journal of Social Science Education, 2023
Purpose: This article presents the place and the role of Sociology teaching in the current Brazilian context, marked by the rise of extreme right ideologies and practices, more specifically by its ultraliberal economic bias and moral conservatism. Design/methodology/approach: Organized in three parts, it outlines, respectively, the macro political…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Moral Values, Sociology, Teaching Methods
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Briggs, Lilly; Trautmann, Nancy M.; Fournier, Christine – Environmental Education Research, 2018
This systematic review extends the boundary of prior reviews in the environmental education (EE) field by analyzing publications focused on Latin America and the Caribbean (LATAM). We examined peer-reviewed literature and dissertations/theses in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Portuguese) published between January 2000 and February…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Outcomes of Education, Informal Education, Educational Research
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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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Medola, Fausto Orsi; Pavel, Nenad; Baleotti, Luciana Ramos; Santos, Aline Darc Piculo; Ferrari, Ana Lya Moya; Figliolia, Amanda Coelho – Design and Technology Education, 2021
Product design pedagogical approaches require a specific mix of competences that demand multiplicity of perspectives, hybrid knowledge that exceeds professional field silos, and continuous problem reformulations. To do this, design studio education follows many traditions, among which is design critique. Design critique is believed to provide…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Design, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
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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
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Belinaso, Leandro; Estevinho, Lúcia; Brasil Ramos, Mariana – Environmental Education Research, 2018
This article discusses recent Brazilian research on the relationship between environmental education and cultural studies. Television narratives about the environment and/or sustainability in our everyday lives are used to pose some initial questions about this relation. First, culture is discussed briefly showing how it potentially relates to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Programming (Broadcast), Futures (of Society), Sustainability
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Deus, Rafael Mattos; Battistelle, Rosane Aparecida Gomes; Ribeiro da Silva, Gustavo Henrique – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mission statements from 30 leading Brazilian universities, evaluating the statements based on a sustainable model that involves an environmental management system, public participation and social responsibility, and sustainable education and research. Design/methodology/approach: Content…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Institutional Mission, Universities, Foreign Countries
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Souto-Manning, Mariana – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2014
In this article, I question the micro-macro separation in discourse analysis, the separation of personal and institutional discourses. I apply a mostly macroanalytic perspective (critical discourse analysis [CDA]) to inform a predominantly microanalytic perspective (analysis of conversational narratives) and vice versa. In the combination of these…
Descriptors: Criticism, Discourse Analysis, Power Structure, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Diversi, Marcelo; Moreira, Claudio – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2012
Together, we the authors, wonder, write, imagine, suffer, and criticize the support of the Belo Monte Monster Dam in the Rio Xingu, in the heart of the Amazon, by two of our personal heroes and fellow Brazilians: Lula, former president and iconic founder of the Workers' Party, and, Dilma Rousseff, our presidenta guerilheira. Using our…
Descriptors: Children, Student Development, Foreign Countries, Poetry
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