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The Access and Cultural Consumption of Students at the State University Vale do Acaraú, Sobral, Ceará, Brazil
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Luiz Antonio Araújo Gonçalves – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
This article is the result of the Final Work of the Specialization Course in Cultural Management, the result of an agreement between the Department of Culture of the State of Ceará, the Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú--UVA and Quitanda das Artes. The work analyzed indicators of cultural access and consumption among students at the Vale do…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Students, Cultural Awareness
Literary Education in Early Childhood: Contradictions between What Is Promised and What Is Delivered
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Simões Girotto, Cyntia Graziella Guizelim; de Souza, Renata Junqueira; Kanthack Hernandes, Elianeth Dias; Selfa, Moisés – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2020
This article presents the results of a comprehensive survey, carried out with 520 early childhood teachers from 68 Early Childhood Education (ECE) institutions located in the western region of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The research aimed to verify the effects of the National School Library Program- PNBE -- in the formation of readers. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Reading Instruction, Beginning Reading
Low Test Scores in Latin America: Poor Schools, Poor Families or Something Else?
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Breton, Theodore R.; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
Latin American students consistently score low on international tests of cognitive skills. In the PISA 2012 results, students in seven Latin American countries had an average score of 395 in mathematics, or about 100 points lower than the average score of 497 in four Scandinavian countries. We estimate the effect of socioeconomic characteristics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Achievement, Scores, Educational Quality
Leitura e Liberdade: Alunos que Gostavam de Ler (Reading and Liberty: Students Who Used to Like to Read).
de Oliveira, Ilka Maria – Horizontes, 1997
Presents a reflection concerning the reading habits of prisoners--where reading stands in their daily routine. (PA)
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education
A Leitura em Imagens (Reading in Images).
Lajolo, Marisa – Horizontes, 1997
Reports on searching the data files of the "Memory of Reading" project. Presents images that evoke social memory from reading practices in Brazil. (PA)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Illustrations, Memory, Reading Habits
Contornando a Repressao: Os Quadrinhos e a "Linguagem Enquadrada" em un Conto Brasileiro (Outlining the Repression: Comics and the "Square Language" in a Brazilian Short Story).
Nakagama, Sonia Yoshie – Horizontes, 1997
Discusses both the ways and the contexts which make sense within the tension created by the relationship between reader and reading in short stories and cartoons. (PA)
Descriptors: Comics (Publications), Foreign Countries, Language Role, Popular Culture
Developing a Flexible Capacity for Approaching a Text.
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Pinto, Abuendia Padilha – ESPecialist, 1986
Focuses on the underlying elements in the reading comprehension process that better distinguish its developmental phases. Offers suggestions for the acquisition of strategies pertaining to textual organization that, together with proposed activities for comprehension, contribute to the formation and consolidation of reading habits. Includes…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension, Reading Habits
IFLA General Conference, 1984. Section on Adult Education. Papers.
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1984
Four papers on the role of libraries in adult education were presented at the 1984 IFLA general conference meeting of the Section on Adult Education. They include: (1) "The Library of the Pompeia Leisure Centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil," in which Apaty Peroni of Brazil provides background on the community, location, collection, personnel,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries