Urban bias in development and educational attainment in Brazil
In: The journal of developing areas, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 271-288
ISSN: 0022-037X
In: The journal of developing areas, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 271-288
ISSN: 0022-037X
In: Foreign affairs, Band 78, Heft 4, S. 139
ISSN: 0015-7120
'Brazil: Five Centuries of Change' by Thomas E. Skidmore and 'A Concise History of Brazil' by Boris Fausto are reviewed. Brazil: Five Centuries of Change by Thomas E. Skidmore and A Concise History of Brazil by Boris Fausto are reviewed.
In: Teaching public administration: TPA, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 159-177
ISSN: 2047-8720
This article discusses the reasons and teaching objectives of an array of new undergraduate courses on public administration and public policy management which have emerged recently in Brazil. While in 2001 there were only two undergraduate courses teaching formal public administration in the country, by 2015, they had risen to 40, and also included more diverse but related courses, such as public policy management, public management, public policy, and other similar ones. If one adds to this figure, distance education, and technological undergraduate courses, the total courses in these areas in Brazil amount to approximately 130 and an estimate of 25,600 students' enrolments. All these courses are understood as belonging to the same field of knowledge, a statement made public by a national movement of professors, course coordinators, and students that stated the specificities and identity of this field of knowledge. This group became known as "The Public Field" movement, declaring the need for training students and future practitioners or academics within courses that are concerned with the public interest and democratic, and ethical governments. The discussion in the article focuses on two main aspects. First, the institutional and political reasons that opened a "window of opportunity" for these courses to emerge in Brazil. Second, the pedagogical objectives of these courses are discussed, and two experiences of innovative teaching in two Brazilian universities are presented as an example of the training objectives these courses are trying to achieve.
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In: International political science review: the journal of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) = Revue internationale de science politique, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 385-395
ISSN: 1460-373X
Educational policy in developing countries has often been designed in imitation of current practice in the industrialized world, even though that practice is itself the subject of a great deal of criticism. Current aid practices have reinforced the imitative approach to educational development. It is possible, however, for both developed and developing countries to learn from the mistakes of developed systems, and to derive lessons emphasizing such attributes of educational systems as flexibility, articulation, recognition of experimental learning, the provision of alternatives, and close cooperation with the community as being important elements of educational policy.
In: International Library of Policy Analysis
Policy analysis in Brazil is the first book to paint a comprehensive panorama of policy analysis activities in Brazil. It brings together 18 studies by leading Brazilian social scientists on policy analysis as a widespread activity and offers key insights into the practice of this field.
Altres ajuts: EDU2008-00816/EDUC ; The article analyses the 'soft power' that the Federal government of Brazil has gained by designing and implementing a very ambitious Plan for the Development of Education. It draws on fieldwork carried out in the country in 2009 and 2010 in order to conduct a discourse analysis of the strategy deployed by the key political agents. The results show to what extent the Federal government has used some catchwords to underpin a general consensus. It has also convinced the international organisations and civil society organisations that the 'programme ontology' of the programme (e.g. hypotheses on the beneficial impacts of multi-dimensional intervention) is reliable enough to wait for a decade until having a whole evaluation. However, since these agents eventually recall varied kinds of political mobilisation, some contradictions and tensions are already apparent. In general, the analysis unveils a complex interplay of national and supra-national politics of education.
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Purpose – China has invested massively in higher education, reaching a mass system; as next step, the country aims at reaching a universal system. Brazil still presents an elite system, but it needs to create adequate public policies to migrate to a mass system. The purpose of this article is to analyze the aspects for a mass educational system, with regard to the quality of education offered, and the prospects for achieving a universal system, with Brazil and China as a reference. Design / methodology / approach - I applied an exploratory and qualitative method through categorical content analysis. The data were collected through nine interviews with government managers, 15 unstructured (open) questionnaires with specialists in higher education, and four student leaders. Findings - The results indicate that the change from an elite system to a mass system impacts quality, as there is an inevitable change in experience. However, this modification does not testify against the mass system, as a nation needs to go through it and structure it adequately in order to reach out to a universal system, i.e., a path desired by both countries. Originality / value - The study presented the reflections observed in the migration from the elite to the mass system based on the main Chinese stakeholders, and the prospects for Brazil to move towards a mass system. Additionally, the article presented the perspectives for both countries to achieve the desired universal system.
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Educational Research and Policy: How do They Relate? contains the proceedings of a four-day symposium held at Wijk, Lidingo-Stockholm in June 1982. Before presenting the papers reported at the symposium, this book first tackles the main issues in the relationship between policymaking and research. This text also elucidates models of interaction, policy systems, and policy proposals. The papers of the symposium are then presented collectively in the last part. Generalizations derived from empirical cases discussed in the symposium are also shown.
Published to mark his 80th birthday, this volume consists of seven essays by Leslie Bethell on major themes in modern Brazilian history and politics: Brazil and Latin America; Britain and Brazil (1808-1914); The Paraguayan War (1864-70); The decline and fall of slavery (1850-1888); The long road to democracy; Populism; The failure of the Left. The essays are new, but they draw on book chapters and journal articles published (mainly in Portuguese) and public lectures delivered in the ten years since his retirement as founding Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies in 2007. In an autobiographical Introduction (Why Brazil?) Professor Bethell describes how, from the most unlikely of backgrounds, he became a historian of Brazil and how he came to devote much of his long academic career to the promotion and development of Brazilian studies in UK (and, to a lesser extent, US) universities. Leslie Bethell is one of the few great Brazilianists, as foreign scholars of Brazil are called, of his and subsequent generations. Brazilianists engage in scholarship that has breadth and depth; illuminate Brazil as an object of study, asking the most important questions that can be asked about the country; and give voice to Brazilian experiences and perspectives. Leslie Bethell has done these things during his long career, and he continues to do so, as this collection of his recent essays on Brazilian history and politics demonstrates. Anthony Pereira, Director, Brazil Institute, King's College London
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Published to mark his 80th birthday, this volume consists of seven essays by Leslie Bethell on major themes in modern Brazilian history and politics: Brazil and Latin America; Britain and Brazil (1808-1914); The Paraguayan War (1864-70); The decline and fall of slavery (1850-1888); The long road to democracy; Populism; The failure of the Left. The essays are new, but they draw on book chapters and journal articles published (mainly in Portuguese) and public lectures delivered in the ten years since his retirement as founding Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies in 2007. In an autobiographical Introduction (Why Brazil?) Professor Bethell describes how, from the most unlikely of backgrounds, he became a historian of Brazil and how he came to devote much of his long academic career to the promotion and development of Brazilian studies in UK (and, to a lesser extent, US) universities.
In: Brazilian journal of political economy: Revista de economia política, Band 24, Heft 1/93, S. 29-72
ISSN: 0101-3157
Gonçalves, Carlos Eduardo Soares: Monetary policy independence and floating exchange rates: what does the Brazilian evidence tell us? - S. 29-35. Palley, Thomas: Escaping the dept constraint on growth: a suggested monetary policy for Brazil. - S. 36-49 Maria Rita Loureiro e Fernando Luiz Abrucio: Política e reformas fiscais no Brasil recente. - S. 50-72
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In: Educational psychology series
This handbook examines policy questions on education in the USA. It reflects the premise that each member of society must take an active role in ensuring in children the cultivation of skills and responsibilities necessary for a free and virtuous social order
In: Pitt Latin American Ser.
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. In the Beginning, there was Land -- 2. Urbanism of Coroneis, Tenentes, and Bachareis -- 3. Urban Policy Under Getulio Vargas -- 4. Dark Clouds over the Cities -- 5. Cities During the Lost Decade of the 1980s -- 6. Cities and Protests in Lula's Years and Beyond -- Searching for (In)conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna present a sweeping narrative of social change in Brazil that documents its transition from a predominantly rural and illiterate society in 1950, to an overwhelmingly urban, modern, and literate society in the twenty-first century. Tracing this radical evolution reveals how industrialization created a new labor force, how demographic shifts reorganized the family and social attitudes, and how urban life emerged in what is now one of the most important industrial economies in the world. A paradigm for modern social histories, the book also examines changes in social stratification and mobility, the decline of regional disparities, education, social welfare, race, and gender. By analyzing Brazil's unprecedented political, economic, and social changes in the late twentieth and twenty-first century, the authors address an under-explored area in current scholarship and offer an invaluable resource for scholars of Latin American and Brazil.