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Emily De Vasconcelos Santos; Ana Flavia Ferreira Da Silva; Leandro De Oliveira Souza – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2024
This study examines, with focus on statistical education, how intersectionality appears in didactic tasks for Brazilian school education, developed by IBGEeduca, an educational platform organized by IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics). In this study, intersectionality was used as an analytical tool to help understand and explain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistics Education, Intersectionality, Elementary School Students
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Ochoa, Theresa A.; Roberts, Susan R. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2021
Juvenile delinquency is a major social problem in many countries. This special series of "Intervention in School and Clinic" focuses on the intersection of youth with disabilities and the laws in the United States, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Norway, which aim to ensure the provision of educational opportunities responsive to the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, Social Problems
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Misiaszek, Greg William – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) largely emerged from Environmental Education (EE) models to teach how actions for 'development' positively and negatively affects our societies and the rest of nature, to then determine how such actions can be 'sustainable' without causing current or future socio-environmental oppressions. However, the…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods
Mirka Martel – Institute of International Education, 2019
The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP), implemented from 2001-2013, was an international fellowship program based on a uniquely inclusive higher education model. Founded on the principle that higher education is an essential long-term investment for addressing major social issues, IFP had two essential goals: ensuring…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Justice, Social Change, International Programs
Monkman, Karen, Ed.; Frkovich, Ann, Ed.; Proweller, Amira, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2022
This volume offers a timely collection of research-based studies that engage with contemporary conditions of precarity across an array of locations, exploring how it is understood, experienced, and acted upon by educators in schools, universities, and nonformal educational spaces. Precarity presents as layered, unpredictable, destabilizing, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Social Justice, Multicultural Education, Educational Policy
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Huggins, Martha K.; DeCastro, Myriam Mesquita P. – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1996
Examines youth murders in Brazil, including victim-generating sociostructural situations and creation of victims. Hypothesizes that modern Brazilian social structures shape poor Brazilian youth's vulnerability to murder by strangers. Presents statistics dealing with the gender distributions, age, skin color, and mode of death, identifying…
Descriptors: Crime, Homicide, Juvenile Justice, Social Problems