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Rezende, Flavia; Ostermann, Fernanda – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2020
This paper explores various theories of curriculum intending to provide a new approach--which we regard as a significant theoretical contribution--to examine the broad set of different discourses that have been shaping science education. We first introduce concepts and values that support traditional and critical curriculum theories and offer some…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Curriculum, Educational Theories, Discourse Analysis
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Batista, Neusa Chaves; Pereyra, Miguel A. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Democratic management as a way of organizing the public school can be translated in its contemporary historicity as a collective action that demands changes in the autocratic and hierarchical structure of the school unit. In this article, we analyze the process of constructing legislation on democratic school management in contexts of local…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Administration, Democratic Values, Educational Change
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Da Costa, Alexandre Emboaba – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2016
This article examines educator participation in training initiatives based on Brazilian federal education legislation (Law 10,639 from 2003) in one city in the state of São Paulo. Law 10,639/03 represents a significant moment in the institutionalization of ethno-racial policies in Brazil over the past 15 years. It makes obligatory the teaching of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Racial Bias, Teacher Education
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de Oliveira Campolina, Luciana; Martínez, Albertina Mitjáns – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2016
The aim of this article is to present a case study of an innovative school and illustrate how social aspects, in their subjective dimension, participate in educational innovation. According to the theoretical propositions from González Rey's cultural-historical theory of subjectivity, social aspects in the life of groups, institutions,…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
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Leite, Denise – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2010
This article examines Brazilian higher education (HE) politics from a post-colonial perspective. The term "post-colonial" originally referred to a historical period of colonial empires established by European nations. Nowadays, the term commonly distinguishes a field of contemporary studies of "defamiliarisation of the imperial…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Epistemology