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Parente, Rafael – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The main obstacle for public-private partnerships in their efforts to improve educational quality in Brazil remains implementation -despite, in many cases, extensive support from government officials, educators, and private industry. The challenge of implementing such programs has received little attention from scholars and policy makers. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation
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Chakraborti-Ghosh, Sumita; Orellana, Karee M.; Jones, Joseph – International Journal of Special Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in philosophies and perceptions of inclusive education between teachers in Brazil and teachers in the United States. As part of a study abroad program, a team of university faculty and graduate students from Tennessee traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in order to investigate their…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Inclusion, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Analysis
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Araujo, Ulisses; Arantes, Valeria – Journal of Moral Education, 2009
This article describes the Ethics and Citizenship Program, a moral education project developed by the Brazilian government to promote education in ethics and citizenship in Brazilian fundamental and middle schools through four key themes: ethics, democratic coexistence, human rights and social inclusion. Some findings from a research project that…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Educational Assessment
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Leite, Francisco Carlos T.; Baggett, Connie D.; Radhakrishna, Rama B. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2004
This qualitative study examines the perceptions of federally supported agricultural school teachers toward the attributes of two educational innovations brought by the educational reform currently undergoing in Brazil--the separation between academic and professional education and the emergence of the competency-based modular curriculum. The…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Professional Education