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Costa, Graça Dos Santos; Costa, Patricia Lessa Santos; Santos, Carla Liane Nascimento Dos; Mallows, David – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
This article presents the results of a qualitative study on the relationship between social movements and a Master's Program in youth and adult education in Bahia, Brazil. It pays particular attention to the importance of antiracism in and the decolonization of the program's curriculum.
Descriptors: Activism, Masters Programs, Adult Education, Foreign Countries
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Craig Whitsed; Carla Camargo Cassol; Betty Leask; Marilia Costa Morosini; Cristina Elsner; Diep Nguyen – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Internationalisation of the curriculum (IoC) is typically approached very differently across national, institutional and disciplinary contexts. This paper reports on research on internationalisation of the curriculum in Latin America and discusses its potential to provoke disruptive innovation in higher education internationalisation.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Curriculum, Global Approach, International Programs
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Friman, Mervi; Schreiber, Dusan; Mutanen, Arto; Perälä, Simu; Salminen, Janne – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to determine how sustainable development (SD) demands (according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's (UNECE) SD themes from 2005) are connected to the contents of education, research, development and innovation (RDI) in higher education institutions (HEI). Education and the RDI nexus may affect HEI's…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Research and Development, Innovation, Higher Education
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Figueiredo, Edson Antônio de Freitas – International Journal of Music Education, 2019
Teachers follow a motivational style based on their own beliefs about motivation affected by environmental events. External events such as rules and traditions often affect orientation towards controlling; however, it is not known if events such as training and employment affect the extent to which music teachers try to control a student's…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Music Education, Teacher Motivation, Teacher Education
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Pasin, Elizabeth Bozoti; Bozelli, Reinaldo Luiz – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Teacher training on environmental education (EE) is a key element of promoting the restoration of ecological systems and insuring inclusive and equitable human development. Science and biology teachers play a significant role in favoring EE at Brazilian schools. This study investigates the presence of EE in the curriculum and aims to interpret the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Environmental Education, Science Teachers, Biology
Hansen, David O.; And Others – 1978
Growth and present status of graduate programs, major research interests, and potential for US-Brazilian collaboration indicate the present state of rural sociology in Brazil. In contrast to US rural sociology's identity crisis of the past decade, the field in Brazil has blossomed. Graduate programs are underway at universities of Rio Grande do…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Cooperation, Cross Cultural Studies, Graduate Students
Silva, Joyce Mary Adam de Paula – 1998
This study examined the education of chemistry professionals in Brazil in light of the profile of such professionals in the current job market. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 chemists employed by two foreign and one domestic companies in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The chemists were graduates of the three major universities…
Descriptors: Business, Chemistry, College Curriculum, Corporations