The school must be redefined to develop personal-professional-civic abilities in the students. The purpose of this article is to describe the role of the teacher, through a documentary type exploratory study that analyzes the background and future projections of a civic education. This is based on the acquisition of civic values through personal experience and the imitation of...
In Africa, education is historically related to social change. In this article, we analyze the ideas and achievements of the African Zulu John Dube (1871-1946) in the educational field and how his discourses and practices are reconnected to the present time. Living in the context of implementing segregation in South Africa, Dube advocated and promoted access to education...
Higher Education institutions around the world were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The extension of social distancing measures requires an adaptation from the on-site to the remote teaching format. This demands planning, as well as taking into account the conditions of both teachers and students. In this article, we propose guidelines to lead the work of university managers...
The article analyzes the political changes that have redefined and are redefining Brazilian higher education and makes notes for analyzing the correlation of economic forces with the historical moment of Brazil, originating in the late decade of the 20th century and extending to the year 2020. The paper characterizes the composition of the Programa Institutos e Universidades...
The term indiscipline covers a variety of quite distinct phenomena in schools. Based on Bion’s ideas, this article will argue that indiscipline defines itself as individual and institutional non-tolerated and non-processed emotional experiences, which are in search of mental processing. This work will conclude that the role of the adult responsible for taking the disciplinary...
The article analyses the experience of a public school in the state of Paraná, Brazil, in the beginning of the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It examined the limits and potentialities of the process experienced by school professionals during the (re)organization of their work with the suspension of face-to-face activities, while experimenting the restructuring of...
This study is non-experimental quantitative, of a descriptive nature. We evaluated variables, dimensions of communication, support, and knowledge of the school. Correlations between the indigenous ethnic group, the school vulnerability, and a head of household adult were researched. It is possible to state that the support and the participation of the families belonging to the...
The article reviews that the student’s conditions of vulnerability and the influence of teaching work on their academic performance are reported to the school principal. It corresponds to an exploratory study, based on interviews with executives of private-subsidized schools with students in this condition. The analysis makes it possible to demonstrate the directive thinking, and...
This paper presents the evaluation of the social impact of a non-formal science teaching activity to promote scientific vocations in primary school children and improve competences for the use of the inquiry methodology (IBSE) of pre-service teachers. The logical model of the project was used and various instruments (questionnaires, interviews and non-participatory observation...
Research on the education of extension workers tends to focus on the implementation of training activities, while studying the role of university education is infrequent. This research analyzes the limits and potentialities of university for educating extension workers based on 133 interviewees to practitioners from different Latin American countries. Results show that...
This study aims to reflect about the following issue: what is the role of the public school in the formation of a democratic society? The research adopts the bibliographic methodology, focusing the study on Anísio Teixeira´s papers. The text presents the author´s contribution to the consolidation of Brazilian public school. The proposed education consists of creating the...
Dialoguing with the literature on shadow education, as well as with elements of the bourdieusian approach dealing with the relationship between social space and individual practices, this article aimed at analyzing the existence or not of participation patterns in supplementary courses using data from the High School National Exam (ENEM; from Portuguese, Exame Nacional do Ensino...
The article reflects on the relevance of knowledge as a factor to achieve sustainable development and the construction of cognitive spaces, counting on education as a generator of said knowledge and transforming social reality. Reality that requires a conscious and proactive Human Capital, a Structural Capital at the service of people, a Relational Capital as an articulating...
The school must be redefined to develop personal-professional-civic abilities in the students. The purpose of this article is to describe the role of the teacher, through a documentary type exploratory study that analyzes the background and future projections of a civic education. This is based on the acquisition of civic values through personal experience and the imitation of...
In Africa, education is historically related to social change. In this article, we analyze the ideas and achievements of the African Zulu John Dube (1871-1946) in the educational field and how his discourses and practices are reconnected to the present time. Living in the context of implementing segregation in South Africa, Dube advocated and promoted access to education...
The development of early childhood education has been relevant in Latin America, as a result of a consensus by the governments in order to guarantee service and quality education for boys and girls. Chile has been important in the region, due to its development in childhood education, driven by a growing institutionalization and an expansion in coverage. However, some experiences...
This article aims to explain the British (English and Gauls) feminist and suffragette teachers’ process for creating the NUWT. Driven by the struggle for being equally paid in relation to male teachers, a fraction of militant feminist teachers from the National Union of Teachers (NUT) founded the Equal Pay League (EPL), in 1904. Then, in 1906, EPL added to its acronym the...
This paper focuses on learning inequalities between social groups in metropolises. We could identify a persistent pattern throughout the city of São Paulo, according to which these groups perform better in the following order: white girls, brown girls, white boys, brown boys, black girls, and black boys. This order almost does not change within the districts. Nevertheless, there...
This paper presents a historical review of the relationship between communication and education in the northeastern semi-arid region, as a starting point for understanding the advances and challenges of the educommunication in the backlands of the Brazilian state of Bahia. Based in the political economy of communication and culture, the text problematizes the course of the...
This study exposes the spread of Military Colleges in the society of the Brazilian state of Goiás, as well as its influence on citizen formation. It aims at reflecting about whether militarizing public schools is the best educational solution to fully train students. It is a bibliographic research with narrative review and epistemological analysis according to Jürgen Habermas...
The purpose of the article is to analyze the World Social Forum, born in the context of the great anti-globalization movements of the late 20th century, as an educating space. This text describes the forum’s history, from its foundation, in Porto Alegre, in the year 2001, to date, analyzing it from the perspective of social movement studies. The analytical focus on the challenges...
This paper presents the political dimension of slam poetry, an artistic practice that can be characterized both as a manifestation of social contestation, and as a production of institutional critique. It is observed that this practice has been, progressively, transported to the institutional school space. This paper focuses on reflecting about this process in schools located in...
This article analyzes trends in the research on youths as collective actors, in plural forms of action in the public-political space. The modalities of practices were aggregated around three axes: those derived from the student condition; those that affect youth cultures; and direct-action movements, alongside territorial-based associationism and identity-based mobilizations. The...
This article focuses on processes of change in feminist and black movements, as well as in what is known currently as the LGBTI movement. It aims to produce comparative approximations on the production of frames and the organizational forms of each movement, considering their trajectories in the last four decades. Special emphasis is given to recent years and to the way the...
The change from a progressive government to a country led by a far-right president in just a few years finds one of its roots in two major changes that took place in the 1980s: the conservative turn in the Catholic Church – and its attacks on liberation theology and practices –, and the concomitant rise of conservative neo-Pentecostal churches. The impact of these changes was...