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Direct linkKoenders, Sara – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2020
In this article, I make an empirical contribution to the scholarship on education in urban settings that are affected by militarized policing and illicit drug markets. I offer insights into the role education played in the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs), a pacification project in Rio de Janeiro favelas. Rio State authorities began to install UPPs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty Areas, Urban Education, Role of Education
Download full textNaiditch, Fernando – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2010
Learning cycles were developed in Brazil as an innovative project in order to address the needs and characteristics of the country's growing heterogeneous urban population. This new school model aims at reducing dropout rates and student failure as well as providing a non-interrupted school experience for diverse learners. In this article, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Education, Urban Population, Student Diversity
Bartlett, Lesley – International Journal of Educational Development, 2008
This article considers contemporary policy claims about "what literacy is" and "what literacy does." First, the article reviews in-depth the ways in which development discourses define literacy, and the claims made in development discourses about the "consequences" of literacy for economic and political development. I…
Descriptors: Literacy, Students, Development, Ethnography
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1990
Five of the six papers in this collection focus on public library services, collection development problems, and involvement in literacy campaigns in developing countries; the sixth paper is concerned with public library services in Norway. (1) In "Big Cities, Its Inhabitants and Public Libraries Systems," May Brooking Negrao examines…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Valentim, Silvani S. – 2002
This study examined a Preparatory Course for Blacks and the Economically Disadvantaged (PBED) in a poor area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The PBED is an alternative educational project that offers regular classes on evenings and weekends using volunteer labor, donated space, and contributions from students who can afford it. Case studies were used…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Education, Black Students, College Admission
Moulin, Nelly; And Others – 1991
An exploratory study designed to analyze the evolution of neighborhood movements in Rio de Janeiro City (Brazil) focuses on actions related to the struggle for public schools. The effort seeks to determine the degree of political autonomy of the neighborhood associations and the nature of the educational demands and their relationship with the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Community Action, Community Attitudes, Community Change
