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Chiroleu, Adriana; Marquina, Monica – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2017
In recent decades, many Latin American governments have implemented policies to expand opportunities in higher education, aiming at reducing discrimination and social inequalities. These policies have taken different forms, according to the peculiarities of the respective higher education systems. The purpose of this paper is to explore the scope…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Policy, Access to Education, Foreign Countries
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Meek, David – Environmental Education Research, 2015
Social movements have initiated both academic programs and disciplines. I present ethnographic data that I gathered during 17 months of fieldwork with the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement (MST) in southeastern Pará, Brazil, to explore the MST's role in creating agroecological education opportunities. My analysis highlights three factors in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Social Action, Educational Change