scholarly journals Non-Partisan School: A Conservative Education Initiative in Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 097318492110535
Author(s):  
Álvaro Moreira Hypolito ◽  
Iana Gomes de Lima
Keyword(s):  
Free Software ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Governance Networks ◽  
Political Governance ◽  
Educational Field ◽  
Education Initiative ◽  
Education In Brazil ◽  
School Movement

The main goal of this article is to analyse the Non-Partisan School movement (EsP, or Escola sem Partido) which articulates social and political actors around a conservative agenda for education in Brazil. Based on Ball’s studies, this article analyses political governance networks using a free software, GEPHI, using a qualitative network methodology. The article analyses some relevant social actors in this conservative initiative. The research shows that the Non-Partisan School, though presented as an initiative against ideological indoctrination, is in fact the result of a strong combination of ideological, conservative and partisan interests. The article shows that EsP is a conservative agenda among other movements in the struggle for ideological hegemony in the educational field.

scholarly journals Métodos, debates e projetos: as atuações do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro na educação (1900-1930) / Methods, debates and projects: the activities of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute in education (1900-1930)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Thaís De Melo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Educational Field ◽  
Education In Brazil

Este artigo apresenta alguns resultados da trajetória de pesquisa sobre a presença do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (IHGB) na Educação . Dentre os aspectos abordados estão as contribuições do instituto para a construção de conhecimentos sobre a História da Educação no Brasil; as relações dos sócios do instituto com instituições de ensino e órgãos administrativos da educação; e os projetos de criação de cursos da Academia de Altos Estudos.  Nesse sentido, propomos considerar o IHGB como um lugar de poder atuante nos conflitos políticos relativos ao campo educacional e como instância produtora de políticas e projetos educacionais no início do século XX. Como fontes para essas questões foram utilizadas publicações e atas da Revista do IHGB, bem como documentos de arquivos de instituições relacionadas e periódicos existentes durante o recorte.* * *This article presents some results of the research trajectory on the teaching of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute (IHGB) in education. Among the addressed projects are the Institute's contributions to the construction of knowledge about the history of education in Brazil; the relations of the members of the Institute with educational institutions and administrative organs of education and the projects of creation of courses and the Academy of High Studies. In this sense, we propose to consider the IHGB as a place of power that is active in political conflicts related to the educational field, and as a producer of policies and educational projects in the early twentieth century. As sources for these issues, publications and minutes of the IHGB Review were used as well as archives of related and periodical institutions existing during the period. 

Oral History Approaches in Education in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeila Demartini
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Material Sources ◽  
Educational Issues ◽  
New Research ◽  
Educational Field ◽  
Education In Brazil

This article analyzes the relationship between oral history and education in Brazil. First, it addresses changes in theoretical and methodological approaches in some disciplinary fields, a move that increasingly questions production based mainly on quantitative research and favors a renewal of qualitative research. In this context, qualitative research incorporated discussions of life histories and the subjects’ narratives as methods of collecting data. At the same time that shifts in sociology and history drew both disciplines together in research that used the biographical approach and oral reports, qualitative research on educational issues was becoming stronger in the field of education. Questioning routine forms of research in these various fields ended up addressing common themes of interest to all of them. Such an approach allowed for the introduction and development of oral history in Brazil as an interdisciplinary field in which questions flowed from one discipline to another, in which sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and educators took part. Oral history is understood as a methodological approach to research in which the researcher commits to the object of study, approaching it based on the oral reports of the subjects involved along with other written, iconographic, and material sources in order to understand the different representations of the subjects. Oral history brought fundamental changes in education: subjects were incorporated into the production of knowledge about the history of education, social relations in the educational field, the way of looking at the formative processes of educators, discussions regarding curricula aimed at diverse social groups, group cultures, among other aspects; the educational field was no longer analyzed mainly from an educational, pedagogical-methodological approach, but one based on the centrality of the subjects and their demands. This change in perspective, no longer only on the part of the State or supporting institutions, provided a link between school and non-school education, as well as in the processes of participation of social groups. It also encouraged the incorporation of diverse data sources and their preservation. New research topics were also taken up, which has had a strong influence on the process of training historians and educators. Educational issues have been at the fore from the first incursions of oral history in Brazil and, precisely because of the exchange being built, new research paths are now being developed.

scholarly journals EDUCATION IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC: Lessons learned and shared

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. a16en
Author(s):  
Elaine Jesus Alves ◽  
Denilda Caetano de Faria
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The World ◽  
Educational Field ◽  
Education In Brazil

In 2020, the world was plagued by a pandemic that demanded the social isolation of people from all over the planet to prevent the rapid spread and overcrowding of hospitals. In the educational field, face-to-face classes have been suspended in more than 150 countries. Some institutions started to use technological resources to offer remote education. The pandemic highlighted issues such as the unpreparedness of education systems and teachers, inequalities in access to the internet and students' computers, among others. Considering that technologies have been part of the daily life of schools for more than 30 years, in this atypical moment there is a strangeness among teachers in their improvised use with their students. This article aims to reflect what this pandemic situation has taught us about online education in Brazil and the perspectives that we can see in this field in the post-pandemic scenario.

scholarly journals Discursive Inclusion and Exclusion of Transgressor(s) in English and Arabic Political Condemnations

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 147-153
Author(s):  
Istiqlal Hassan Ja’ afar ◽  
Maitham Sarhan H. Alhamad
Keyword(s):  
Social Actor ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Moral Transgression

Political condemnations are expressive illocutionary acts enacted by political actors to publicly denounce and raise awareness of a certain moral transgression(s) committed by particular transgressors(s). The current article aims to cross-culturally investigate the linguistic devices deployed by politicians to include or exclude the identity of the transgressor(s) in selected English and Arabic political condemnation statements and to investigate how political affiliations and disaffiliations of political actors affect and influence the ways social actors are represented in political condemnations. The article mainly draws on Van Leeuwen’s (2008) Social Actor Representation framework to analyze the selected dataset. The study concludes that in both languages, condemners adopt, more or less, similar linguistic devices and discursive strategies to including and excluding of transgressor(s). It was also found that unlike the English statements, whereby implicit inclusion, i.e. backgrounding is utilized, transgressor(s) in the Arabic statements is found to be either included or excluded in the condemnation statements. Moreover, transgressors’ inclusion and exclusion were found to be, to a certain degree, ideologically motivated and deeply affected and mostly demarcated by the relationships between the condemners and the condemned parties on one hand, and between the condemning party and the parties affected by the transgression act(s).

Social Investment in a Federal Welfare State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Noël
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
Social Pact ◽  
State Context ◽  
Instructive Case

Following the 1995 referendum on sovereignty, Quebec’s main political and social actors agreed on a new social pact that combined efforts to eliminate the deficit with ambitious social investment reforms. In the following years, Quebec governments, headed in turn by the province’s two main political parties, substantially transformed a number of social policies, and succeeded in increasing labour-market participation, limiting the rise of inequality, and reducing poverty. The Quebec experience, which unfolded while the Canadian government gradually moved away from social investment, can be seen as an instructive case on the possibilities of social investment in a highly constrained, federal and liberal welfare state context. It underlines, in particular, the importance of social forces and political actors in bringing about unexpected changes, and points as well to trade-offs between the maintenance of established social programmes and the development of new ones.

The Radicalization of Contention in Northern Ireland, 1968-1972: A Relational Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca De Fazio
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Relational Perspective

This article investigates the radicalization of contention in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1972 using a relational perspective and methodological approach. Two arenas of contention, movement-countermovement interactions and the structure of political opportunities and threats, are examined to understand the outbreak of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland. The evolution of radical contention is explored through Quantitative Narrative Analysis (QNA), an innovative method that systematically records social actors and their interactions within an event. Relying on computer-assisted story grammars [the Subject (S) - Action (A) - Object (O) sequence and their modifiers] to parse narrative data, 6,035 semantic triplets were stored in a relational database. Sequential network models are used to analyze the database and reconstruct the nature and evolution of the interactions among the main political actors involved in the Troubles. Four distinct phases of the conflict are unveiled through network models of violence, indicating how and when the conflict radicalized, and how actors shifted their strategies of contention. Archival data are used to specify how mechanisms of radicalization, such as hostile counter-mobilization, repression, object shift and boundary activation, engendered the conflict.

Teacher Education in Brazil: The Use of Free Software in Math Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Eliane Elias Ferreira dos Santos ◽  
Aleandra da Silva Figueira-Sampaio
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Math Education ◽  
Free Software ◽  
Education In Brazil

Context is Everything: Environment and Education Intersections in the Rise and Fall of Iran’s Nature Schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-173
Author(s):  
Edgar A. Burns ◽  
Bahar Manouchehri
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Success Story ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education System ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Education Initiative ◽  
School Movement

This study of the rise and fall of nature schools across Iran in 2014–2019 shows the environmental and educational context of modernization during and before the Iranian Islamic Republic commenced in 1979. The account provides the historical and cultural context for understanding the nature school movement. Ecologist Hossein Vahabzadeh’s environmental entrepreneurship establishing nature schools strategically fitted these to institutional patterns of Iranian society. The later change of heart by the government, delicensing nature schools, curtailed an environmental education success story. Key discursive threads in Iranian culture, society and governance moulded the rise and course of the nature schools education initiative. Multiple intersecting causes identified continue in environmental education developments in the national education system. This outline of the social and cultural shaping of nature schools provides a basis for future scholarship to tell a fuller account. It identifies the nature school movement’s complexity, seeing beyond simple terms of good, bad or failed.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of Gaza Marches of Return Coverage in Selected Newspapers

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Yakoub Abu Taha ◽  
Rajai Al-Khanji
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Guardian

The current study aimed at discovering biases through comparing the used journalistic and lexicalizations practices in quotations patterns and representations of social actors in news coverage of the Gaza Marches of Return. The selected newspapers were The Guardian, the New York Times, The Jordan Times and Haaretz. The study sample comprised 32 news articles and 8 editorials. The findings of the study revealed that more space was given to Israeli political and military actors over their Palestinian counterparts in the New York Times and Haaretz. The Guardian and the Jordan Times quotations of Palestinian civilian actors focused on human suffering and casualties themes while Haaretz and the NYT quoted them instigating deadly attacks among other themes. The use of negative themes along with negative speakers’ descriptions of Palestinian political actors revealed biased stances against Palestinian Civilian Actors. In addition, the used reporting verbs, unbalanced quotations distributions and word counts of social actors’ quotations pointed at biased practices and adoption of one party narrative in the case of the NYT, Haaretz and the Jordan Times. 

scholarly journals Anti-gender politics and the authoritarian turn in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-125
Author(s):  
Gustavo Gomes da Costa Santos
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Event Analysis ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
The Military

In 2018, Jair Bolsonaro, a former captain and congressman known for his racist, sexist, and homophobic remarks, was elected president of Brazil. His election shocked political analysts, representing the major setback in the Brazilian democracy since the end of the military rule in the 1980’s.  The present work analyses the social actors and the political processes behind the rise of Bolsonaro to power. It focuses on the role of anti-gender politics in the recent authoritarian turn. Borrowing some insights from the Protest Event Analysis methodology, the work explores the dynamics of the anti-gender protest events, their main social and political actors, repertoires of actions and demands. It also review the recent debate on the crisis of democracy and the rise of extreme right-wing movements and parties, focusing on the centrality of opposition to gender equity and LGBTQI+ rights in the rhetoric and action of conservative and far-right groups.

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