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Direct linkDiesel, Vivien; Miná Dias, Marcelo – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2016
Purpose: To analyze the Brazilian experience in designing and implementing a recent extension policy reform based on agroecology, and reflect on its wider theoretical implications for extension reform literature. Design/methodology/approach: Using a critical public analysis we characterize the evolution of Brazilian federal extension policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ecological Factors, Agricultural Production, Environmental Influences
Fujiura, Glenn T.; Rutkowski-Kmitta, Violet; Owen, Randall – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2010
Background: Statistics are critical in holding governments accountable for the well-being of citizens with disability. International initiatives are underway to improve the quality of disability statistics, but meaningful ID data is exceptionally rare. Method: The status of ID data was evaluated in a review of 12 national statistical systems.…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Well Being
Bluhm, Louis Herbert – 1973
This study deals with attitudes toward pollution issues, and the potential for changes in such attitudes. Data were obtained from high school seniors in a small Illinois town which was attempting to solve a severe water pollution problem. Students' pollution attitudes were measured in a bench-mark survey. They were exposed to a speech against…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Doctoral Dissertations, Federal Government, Local Government
Peer reviewedMcGinn, Noel; Pereira, Luzete – Comparative Education, 1992
Compares the histories of Brazilian and U.S. federal government policies toward educational governance. Argues that current policies that apparently support decentralization and privatization actually ensure the continued hegemony of the state while relieving it of financial and social responsibilities related to efficiency and equity. Contains 47…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Administration, Educational History, Educational Policy
Download full textBruan, Ricardo – 1992
Brazilian environmental education and training experience is recent but has a concrete base of generating awareness among all levels of the population and also aims to train people to protect, control and manage the use of environmental resources. Several visits were made by the author to organizations, enterprises and institutions from federal,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Ecology, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Horta, Carlos Roberto; de Carvalho, Ricardo Augusto Alves – 1992
The current strategy for Brazil's development does not focus on traditional advantages such as cheap and unskilled labor and inexpensive raw materials. The Brazilian government proposes an emphasis on vocational training and rehabilitation of human resources and on research and development. Vocational training has traditionally been offered by…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Practices, Federal Government
