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Direct linkde Azevedo, Mario Luiz Neves; Robertson, Susan Lee – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
In this paper, we examine the rise of authoritarian populism in Brazil following the election in 2018 of Jair Messias Bolsonaro to the Presidency and reflect on the consequences of his far-right-wing politics for education. Our focus is broadly on three historical blocs (with five different presidents of the Republic) which make up the policy…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Presidents, Political Attitudes, Politics of Education
Ben Ross Schneider – Oxford University Press, 2024
The key to sustained and equitable development in Latin America is high quality education for all. However, coalitions favoring quality reforms in education are usually weak because parents are dispersed, business is not interested, and much of the middle class has exited public education. In "Routes to Reform," Ben Ross Schneider…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
França, Thais; Alves, Elisa; Padilla, Beatriz – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2018
This paper explores policies on international student mobility to Portugal from within the Lusophone space, analyzing the cases of Angola, Cape Verde and Brazil. We argue that Portuguese strategies to attract international students respond to different demands and interests embedded in its geopolitical memberships. One the one hand, they respond…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Mobility, Foreign Policy
Download full textBernasconi, Andrés; Celis, Sergio – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
This article introduces a special issue of EPAA/AAPE devoted to recent higher education reforms in Latin America. The last two decades have seen much policy development in higher education in the region, examined and discussed by scholars in each country, but dialog with the international literature on higher education reform, or an explicit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Higher Education, Educational Change
Burton, Guy – International Review of Education, 2012
This article analyses the progression of education policy by the Workers' Party (PT) in Brazil from its experience of municipal administration to national government. The first section presents this development, noting its progression from a participatory, social(ist) project to a more reformist, elite-directed model. The second section accounts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Teacher Role, Political Attitudes
Dias, Diana; Marinho-Araujo, Claisy; Almeida, Leandro; Amaral, Alberto – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2011
Given that higher education systems everywhere have opened to the masses, this paper analyses to what extent this phenomenon has really been accompanied by an effective democratisation of access and success in Portugal and Brazil. It looks at the expansion of higher education and discusses how the political system and higher education institutions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Failure, Access to Education
Holzhacker, Denilde; Chornoivan, Olena; Yazilitas, Demet; Dayan-Ochir, Khishigbuyan – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2009
Privatization is one of the main global trends in higher education. Aspects of privatization include the development and expansion of private institutions, increased reliance of public institutions on private funding, and the operation of the institutions in a businesslike manner. The rapid spread of privatization in higher education systems of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Foreign Countries, Trend Analysis
Pinheiro, Romulo, Ed.; Benneworth, Paul, Ed.; Jones, Glen A., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Universities are under increasing pressure to help promote socio-economic growth in their local communities. However until now, no systematic, critical attention has been paid to the factors and mechanisms that currently make this process so daunting. In Universities and Regional Development, scholars from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Role of Education, International Education
Ranieri, Nina Beatriz Stocco – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2009
State control over higher education has been provided for in the Brazilian legal system since the establishment of the republic, with university autonomy having been the object of six reforms of higher education and various federal decrees up until the federal constitution of 1988, which upheld it in Article 207. In a country with a limited and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Policy
Akoojee, Salim; Nkomo, Mokubung – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
Access to higher education is a key challenge of the 21st century state. The link between higher education and personal and socio-economic development has intensified the need for ensuring that greater numbers of citizens have expanded access to and have been provided with quality higher education. The article seeks to explore how initiatives for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Higher Education, Sustainable Development
Apple, Michael W., Ed.; Ball, Stephen J., Ed.; Gandin, Luis Armando, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
This collection brings together many of the world's leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. The thirty-seven newly commissioned chapters draw upon theory and research to provide new accounts of contemporary educational processes, global trends, and changing and enduring forms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Higher Education, Middle Class
Canen, Ana – Policy Futures in Education, 2005
The article discusses the extent to which multiculturalism has had an impact in the emerging reforms in higher education in Brazil, against the backdrop of the rise of a new non-Conservative, Labour-oriented government whose political agenda is marked by a discursive stand against conservatism, neo-liberalism and neocolonialism. Building on a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
