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Gila Amitay – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
Capoeira is an effective rehabilitative practice for marginal populations. There is a need to define the essential elements of the trainee's experience, and to conceptualize and define the processes of inclusion and rehabilitation associated with Capoeira training. This study aimed to explore the therapeutic rehabilitative elements of Capoeira…
Descriptors: Clubs, Physical Activities, Athletics, Social Justice
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Pereira, Arliene Stephanie Menezes; Venâncio, Luciana – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
Although the teaching of African-Brazilian and Indigenous history and culture is mandatory in primary and secondary schools, there has been a lack of proper contextualizing in PETE programs [Corsino, L. N., & Conceição, W. L. (Eds.). (2016). "Educação física escolar e relações étnico-raciais: Subsídios para a implementação das leis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Physical Education, Teacher Education Programs
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França, Thais; Cairns, David – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
The Brazilian University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB) was created to host students from Portuguese-speaking Africa and Brazil. In this article, we look at the aims and objectives of UNILAB, which include the social integration of these students at the university. We present results from interviews…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Mobility, Portuguese, Universities
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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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Windle, Joel Austin; Muniz, Kassandra – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2018
This paper reflects on racial identification in Brazil, considering how concepts of race travel internationally and are transformed locally. In light of the silencing of issues of race in Brazilian public education, we analyse the experiences of student teachers of colour participating in a professional development project coordinated by the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Minority Group Teachers, Qualitative Research
Walker, Sheila S. – Sage, 1986
Joining African religion with Catholicism, women of northeastern Brazil re-enact century-old ceremonies. When forced to practice Catholicism, Afro-Brazilians assimilated their concepts of forces into the belief in Christian saints. Sisterhoods and brotherhoods in Brazil were underground manifestations of religions native to Africa. (VM)
Descriptors: Acculturation, African Culture, Catholics, Death