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Amorim, Gabriela; Balestrassi, Pedro; Paiva, Anderson; Gottzandt, Isabella – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
The methodology used in this study was action-research and the considered activity is been applied successfully for at least five years to undergraduate and to master classes for Industrial Engineering students in Brazil. It showed a significant result in both cases, providing the basis for the deepening in the subject in further lessons.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Behavioral Objectives
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Souza, Karina Ap F. D.; Porto, Paulo Alves – Science & Education, 2012
Assuming that textbooks give literary expression to cultural and ideological values of a nation or group, we propose the analysis of chemistry textbooks used in Brazilian universities throughout the twentieth century. We analyzed iconographic and textual aspects of 31 textbooks which had significant diffusion in the context of Brazilian…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Physics, Chemistry, Science Education
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de Oliveira Neto, Jose Dutra; dos Santos, Elaine Maria – American Journal of Distance Education, 2010
The objective of this study was to identify the methodological approaches employed in a sample of Brazilian distance education scientific literature and compare with similar publications in the United States. Brazilian sample articles (N = 983) published in several journals and meetings were compared with a sample of articles published in…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education