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Carneiro, Ana Maria; Fior, Camila – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Research universities enable students to have a unique learning environment and other experiences. This article aims to analyze student engagement in one research university in Brazil, the effects of student socioeconomic and academic characteristics and their associations with university structures (curriculum), and student trajectories. The data…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Learner Engagement, Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement
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Lopes, Priscila Bianchi; Shikako-Thomas, Keiko; Cardoso, Roberta; Simões Matsukura, Thelma – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Background: Social participation is a complex construct, thus different factors may facilitate or restrict engagement. Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy (CP) and their mothers often experience barriers in social participation. Therefore, they are frequently facing challenges in order to engage in meaningful activities, in different contexts.…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Adolescents, Mothers, Attitudes
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Rodrigues, Stephania A.; Fontanella, Bruno J. B.; Avó, Lucimar R. S.; Germano, Carla M. R.; Melo, Débora G. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
Background: This study investigated the psychocultural perspectives concerning family quality of life among Brazilian families with children who have severe or profound intellectual disability. Methods: Individual in-depth semi-structured interviews conducted with 15 mothers, selected by convenience, were analysed using a categorical thematic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality of Life, Severe Intellectual Disability, Family Environment
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Bergmann, Leila Mury – E-Learning, 2004
This article discusses representations of television in written texts found in elementary school Portuguese language textbooks (PLTb) from 5th to 8th grade. In order to obtain the necessary information for this article, six PLTb collections were selected (out of the 35 that were analyzed and approved by Brazil's National Textbook Program--PNLD--in…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Social Life, Textbooks, Foreign Countries
Fischer, Maria Clara Bueno; Ziebell, Clair – Adults Learning, 2005
In a changing society there is considerable interest in developing and systematising people's lifelong learning and in relating this to workplace performance. In Brazil, there has been a growing emphasis on researching and developing basic education and vocational courses from the perspective of active citizenship. This point of view informs this…
Descriptors: Social Life, Citizenship, Lifelong Learning, Experiential Learning
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Moita-Lopes, Luiz Paulo – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2003
This article looks into how masculinities are constructed in a mother tongue fifth grade reading classroom in Rio de Janeiro by focusing on the stories pupils tell one another in this context. The article follows a socio-constructionist view of discourse and social identities, such that stories are taken as resources used in the construction of…
Descriptors: Social Life, Focus Groups, Interviews, Grade 5