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Robinson, John; Alhakim, Andi Darell; Ma, Grace; Alam, Monisha; Brando, Fernanda da Rocha; Braune, Manfred; Brown, Michelle; Côté, Nicolas; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano; Garza, Ana Karen; Gorman, David; Hajer, Maarten; Madden, John; Melnick, Rob; Metras, John; Newman, Julie; Patel, Rutu; Raven, Rob; Sergienko, Kenneth; Smith, Victoria; Tariq, Hoor; van der Lem, Lysanne; Wong, Christina Nga Jing; Wiek, Arnim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Governance, Barriers, Universities
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Maryluz Hoyos Ensuncho – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
Higher education institutions have been complicit with the ongoing coloniality project that reinforces and perpetuates inequities, dismisses interests, knowledges, alternative discourses, and world views different from Western European thought (Bell, 2018; Dastile & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, 2013; Harms-Smith & Rasool, 2020). Education is rooted in…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Educational Practices, Higher Education, Praxis
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Joana Salém Vasconcelos; Naiara do Rosário; Tatiane Ribeiro; Paula Maíra Cordeiro – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
This paper is a written dialogue among four activists from the Emancipa Popular Education Movement in Brazil, following the principles of Freirean pedagogy as a "circle of culture." It delves into how "popular knowledge can be experienced as popular power," narrating the history, struggles, and strategies employed by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Opinion, Power Structure, Popular Education
Ravi Lakshmikanthan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explores the evolving landscape of international higher education partnerships, with a specific focus on the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). These countries, representing a significant portion of the world's population and economy, are redefining collaborative models in higher education, particularly…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Developing Nations, Developed Nations, Partnerships in Education
Paula Groves Price, Editor – Oxford University Press, 2024
"The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race and Education" is designed to provide scholars, students, and educational practitioners access to research, theories, and historical and contemporary reviews of the many complex and nuanced ways race is enacted in education in different nations. Understanding race in education requires multidisciplinary…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Race, Social Influences, Power Structure
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Luiza Lana Gonçalves; Hayley Morrison; Kristi Mally; Tim Fletcher – Sport, Education and Society, 2025
Despite the long history of the idea of democratic education, the articulation of how teacher educators enact democratic practices remains elusive. The purpose of this research was to examine how we understand and enact democratic principles in our physical education teacher education (PETE) practices. Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Educators
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Luiza Cerveira Kampff – Journal of International Students, 2023
The experience of participating in a mobility program is both enriching and shocking. While facing different identities and asymmetrical relations of power, the international student from the Global South is forced to reanalyze his or her identity in the world. The politics of racialization and the dichotomy between the politics of belonging and…
Descriptors: Poverty, Student Mobility, Power Structure, Foreign Students
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Brito, Edvan P.; Barnum, Anthony J. – Journal of Global Education and Research, 2022
This paper presents and analyzes a case study of a five-week study abroad course called "Inequality in Brazil: An exploration of race, class, gender, sexuality, and geography." The course was constructed to teach social inequality in the context of Brazil by using place-based and experiential learning within the framework of critical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Racial Bias, Gender Bias
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Pischetola, Magda; de Miranda, Lyana V. Thédiga; Albuquerque, Paula – Learning, Media and Technology, 2021
We are used to considering human agency as the most important aspect of the educational process. Technologies are seen as inert matter, subordinated to human intention and design, as if they did not have a role in the eclectic combination of teaching, learning, and knowing about the world. Their agency is invisible until a breakdown occurs, a…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Distance Education, Influence of Technology, Access to Computers
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Gerhardt, Heinz Peter – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
This contribution to the special issue is an historical account of Paulo Freire's pedagogical and administrative praxis before his forced exile in 1964. It relies on interviews collected during a field trip in 1976, a conversation with Paulo Freire in Geneva one year later and on the secondary literature up to date. Being the head of the first…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Practices, Universities, Extension Education
Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams Ed.; Hana Huskic Ed.; Christina M. Noto Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
This timely book features rich examples of students and teachers, defined as learning partners, disrupting hierarchy in education by collaborating on social change projects. At the book's core is Paulo Freire's theorization of students and teachers working together toward co-liberation. Co-written by learning partners, each chapter in this…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Power Structure, Social Change, Teacher Student Relationship
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Souza, Ana; Arthur, Linet – Management in Education, 2020
Leadership in complementary schools is an under-researched area. This article aims to address this gap in the literature by reporting on a study which focused on Brazilian complementary schools in the United Kingdom. Distributed leadership was initially adopted as a theoretical framework to analyse the relationship between leadership style and…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Communities of Practice, Leadership Styles, Foreign Countries
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Arantes, Pedro Fiori – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2021
This article discusses the recent expansion and democratization of Brazil's higher education system from the beginning of the twenty-first century to the present, concluding with its contemporary clash with the far-right government, which has placed universities and scientific knowledge under attack -- an experience had around the globe. In the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Private Colleges, Foreign Countries
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Moeller, Kathryn – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2021
Through the critical feminist lens of intersectionality, this article examines how race, gender, and sexuality were contested through a process of curricular revision before the "Base Nacional Comum Curricular," the new Brazilian 'common core' curriculum known as the BNCC, became federal law in 2017. Drawing on interviews with professors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Race, Gender Differences
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Santos, Jane Lucia Silva; Steil, Andrea Valéria – Learning Organization, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to describe and analyze organizational learning processes and power dynamics during the adoption and use of an information system (IS) at a Brazilian public organization. Design/methodology/approach: A case study was chosen as the research method. Data were gathered from documents and interviews with key informants.…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Information Systems
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