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Sandro R. Barros; Mary Juzwik; Kasun Gajasinghe – Journal of Literacy Research, 2024
Reluctance to embrace change leaves societies vulnerable to the rise of authoritarian political ideologies, particularly during times of socioeconomic and political crises. Public schools have seen an increase in incidents where fundamentalist groups with differing agendas have attempted to pressure them into adopting curricula whose literacy…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Nationalism, Public Education, Religion
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Souza, Ana – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2016
There has been growing interest by British policy-makers in the importance of acknowledging the role of migrant children's background in their educational progress. Therefore, this article draws on studies of language-ethnicity and of language-religion to understand the linguistic and the religious heritage of four groups of Brazilian migrants in…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Religion, Guidelines, Foreign Countries
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Makoni, Sinfree Bullock; Severo, Cristine – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
A vast amount of literature addresses issues surrounding English and French in colonial and post-colonial communities. However, relative to the spread of English and French language ideology, a limited amount of literature exists on Lusitanization (i.e. the spread of Portuguese colonial ideology by Portugal during colonialism and the role of…
Descriptors: Language Role, Portuguese, Foreign Policy, Foreign Countries
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El-Hani, Charbel N.; Sepulveda, Claudia – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2010
In this paper we discuss the results of an investigation aiming at mapping the conceptions of nature of protestant biology preservice teachers in a Brazilian university, State University of Feira de Santana, and elucidating their strategies to manage the coexistence of scientific and religious knowledge. We employ naturalistic semi-structured…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Protestants, Scientific Principles
Boaventura, Elias – Comunicacoes, 2000
States that the topic of confessionalism has generated a prolonged debate between Brazilian Methodists through the general council of Methodist teaching institutions. Suggests that Methodist academic institutions have no obligation to evangelize but should work in the struggle toward education which is characterized by the search for meaning in…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Protestants