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Challenging Neo-Liberalism, Building Democracy: Creating the Citizen School in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Peer reviewedGandin, Luis Armando; Apple, Michael W. – Journal of Education Policy, 2002
Situates the experience of Porto Alegre in the larger political and educational context of Brazil; presents normative goals of the Citizen School and examines the mechanisms that helped forge these goals; describes and explains some elements of the institutional design of the Citizen School; evaluates potential problems of the project; offers some…
Descriptors: City Government, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Democratic Values
