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Brazil: Towards the consolidation of music as a mandatory curriculum subject

Jusamara Souza

Jusamara Souza

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The Origins and Foundations of Music Education : International Perspectives

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...Introduction The chapter illustrates the struggles and negotiations that have characterized the relationship between music education and government policies in Brazil. Five distinct historical eras provide the focus...

“If it’s already tough, imagine for me…”: A Qualitative Perspective on Youth Out of School and Out of Work in Brazil

Ana Luiza Machado, Miriam Muller

Ana Luiza Machado, Miriam Muller

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World Bank Group, 2018

Policy report

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...Drawing on in-depth interviews with young women and men in rural and urban Brazil, this qualitative research explores gender dimensions in the causes and consequences of being “out of work and out of school.” A key conclusion from...

‘Prefigurative’ approaches to participatory schooling: experiences in Brazil

Tristan McCowan

Tristan McCowan

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Children as Decision Makers in Education : Sharing Experiences Across Cultures

Continuum, 2010

Book chapter

...Recent interest in increasing pupil participation in school decision-making has had diverse motivations. Participation can be seen as a right, as enshrined in the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet...

Preschool Education in Brazil: Does Public Supply Crowd Out Private Enrollment?

Paulo Bastos

Paulo Bastos

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Odd Rune Straume

Odd Rune Straume

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World Bank Group, 2016

Policy report

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...This paper examines whether an expansion in the supply of public preschool crowds out private enrollment. The paper uses rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000 to 2006, where federal transfers to local governments change...

Brazil: Curriculum of Basic Education: An inventory of concepts and practices

Guiomar Namo de Mello

Guiomar Namo de Mello

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Education in South America : Education Around the World

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Education Around the World chapter

...This chapter examines the legal regulations and conceptual models of the basic education curriculum in Brazil. Two main approaches of the curriculum theory, knowledge-centred and student-centred, provide a conceptual framework to examine...

Brazil: Why José Can’t Read

João Batista Araujo e Oliveira

João Batista Araujo e Oliveira

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Education in South America : Education Around the World

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Education Around the World chapter

...Brazil's Pisa scorecard is the result of ineffective education policies that have been implemented since the 1980s. The country adopted a strategy to simultaneously expand educational opportunities at all levels, at the expense of quality...

Full-Time Teachers, Students, and Curriculum: The Single-Shift Model in Rio de Janeiro

Tassia Cruz

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Tassia Cruz

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Andre Loureiro

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Eduardo Sa

Eduardo Sa

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World Bank Group, 2017

Policy report

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...This paper examines the full-time school program in Rio de Janeiro’s municipal schools. The program, called as the “Single-Shift” schools (Turno Único), extends the time students spend in municipal schools and seeks to improve the quality...

“Here comes Chavo! Everyone’s watching the TV” . . . Thinking about Difference and Alterity, Childhood, and Education

Ana Paula Marques de Carvalho

Ana Paula Marques de Carvalho

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Rita de Cássia Prazeres Frangella

Rita de Cássia Prazeres Frangella

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Resonances of El Chavo del Ocho in Latin American Childhood, Schooling, and Societies

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...Translated from Portuguese by Rolf Straubhaar.This quote comes from the chorus of the theme music that would play on the Brazilian edition of Chavo. It was on a Friday night at 6 p.m., on August 24, 1984, that the first episode...

Globalization, Superdiversity, Language Learning and Teacher Education in Brazil

Fernanda Coelho Liberali

Fernanda Coelho Liberali

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Initial English Language Teacher Education : International Perspectives on Research, Curriculum and Practice

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...Objectives Discuss processes of globalization, superdiversity and multilingualism and their implications for language teaching. Present the Multicultural Education...

Patterns of School Segregation in Brazil: Inequalities and Education Policy

Tiago Lisboa Bartholo

Tiago Lisboa Bartholo

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Marcio da Costa

Marcio da Costa

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Understanding School Segregation : Patterns, Causes and Consequences of Spatial Inequalities in Education

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Book chapter

...Introduction This chapter discusses the distribution of educational opportunities in Brazil, and presents a review of the most recent publication related to school segregation and educational inequality in the country...