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Castellanos, Samuel Luis Velázquez – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
The article examines the history of "Casa dos Educandos Artífices" [House of the Artificer Apprentices (1841/1889)] in the Province of Maranhão (Brazil), which received underprivileged boys after the continuous increase of poverty caused by the Rebellion of Balaiada (1839-1841). At the "Casa" children were taught basic literacy…
Descriptors: Educational History, Poverty, Literacy Education, Disadvantaged
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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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Marisa Bittar; Amarilio Ferreira Jr. – History of Education, 2024
The Portuguese policies of colonisation and Christianisation were closely linked. In 1549, the Portuguese monarchy adopted Catholicism as the official religion of the colonial administration and requested that the Society of Jesus establish the Catholic faith among the indigenous people in Brazil. The Jesuits established catechesis, founded the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colonialism, Educational History, Christianity
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Teixeira, Pedro; Henriques, Adrian – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
In the last decade, demands for greater order and the defense of traditional moral values have grown in Brazil within the scope of what authors have been calling the new Brazilian conservatism. Conservative and neoliberal leaders and religious groups stand out, acting on different fronts in politics and social relations, including education.…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Moral Values
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Pandya, Samta P. – Roeper Review, 2021
Educational interventions with the intellectually gifted are increasingly focusing on social-emotional learning and techniques. Spiritual education programs are gaining prominence in working with gifted children. This article reports a study examining the effect of a spiritual education program (SEP) in managing emotions of intellectually gifted…
Descriptors: Intervention, Spiritual Development, Gifted Education, Scores
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Alves, Mário A.; Segatto, Catarina I.; Pineda, Andrea M. – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
This article shows the intersections of right-wing conservative discourse and evangelical religious proselytism in shaping right-wing populist discourse in Brazil and its implications on the education policy in the last decade. Since re-democratisation in the 1980s, the policy path sought to guarantee progressive and inclusive public education,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Case Studies, Political Influences
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Mannoia, V. James – Christian Higher Education, 2015
In this wide-ranging review essay, the author engages "Christian Higher Education: A Global Reconnaissance," a book edited by J. Carpenter, P. L. Glanzer, and N. S. Lantinga (2014). His remarks focus especially on the five chapters of the book that survey Christian higher education in nations where he has direct experience: Brazil,…
Descriptors: Christianity, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy
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Madero, Cristobal – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2018
The preparation, convocation, and implementation of the Second Vatican Council sparked changes at theological and organisational levels in the Catholic church. Both types of changes created a new structure for the relationship of different elements within the church and between the church and the world. This was not the first time the Catholic…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Catholics, Christianity, Clergy
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Chaves Haracemiv, Sonia Maria; Branco, Veronica – Policy Futures in Education, 2018
This article presents the research carried out in the State Center for Basic Education for Young and Adult Primary and Secondary School Campo Comprido, Curitiba, Paraná, a privileged space in the recognition and valorisation of the trajectories of different social and ethnic groups. The study uses the methodology of action research, where all had…
Descriptors: School Culture, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Action Research
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Hobbs, Vivian L. – Education, 2004
The city of Rome is situated on seven hills along the Tiber River. It developed from a series of small villages into numerous city-states, then to a Republic, and finally into an Empire, which covered several million miles. Thousands of miles away from Rome on another continent is Brazil, which measures 3,268,470 square miles in area. This article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mythology, Historians, Christianity