Plutocracy, Platonism and Education in Brazil: Some Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-601
Author(s):  
Alexandre Anselmo Guilherme ◽  
Bruno Antonio Picoli

The Lancet stated in its editorial on the 9th of May 2020 that the situation in Brazil was very problematic insofar as the COVID-19 pandemic was concerned. More than a year later, Brazil already registered more than half a million deaths from complications of COVID-19, which places it in second place in the world ranking of deaths despite having the seventh-largest population in the world. Despite this utterly tragic situation, in July 2021, almost 40% of the Brazilian population approved of the federal government's role in confronting the pandemic, and the Brazilian elites have defended openly the view that the economy was more important than individuals' lives. Given this context, in this article, we reflect on the issue of plutocracy, demonstrating its platonic authoritarian foundations, in order to understand the Brazilian elites' attitude toward the pandemic, which had no proper regard or care for the most vulnerable in society. Through this philosophical inquiry we indicate the importance of education, particularly of philosophy of education, in encouraging educationists and educational systems to reflect on problematic issues and self-reflect so as to identify possible educational deficiencies and shortcomings that created the conditions for individuals' attitudes of indifference to the victims of the pandemic and the vulnerable in society.

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 285-293
Author(s):  
Полянин ◽  
Andrey Polyanin ◽  
Рудакова ◽  
Olga Rudakova ◽  
Марченкова ◽  
...  

Education today is understood as national potential and capital, as a condition for ensuring the competitiveness of state and society. In this regard, the determination of the effectiveness of the national education system has special significance. Competitiveness of the national educational systems today reflects in the world ranking.


Author(s):  
Moch. Yusuf Efendi ◽  
Hsi-Nancy Lien

This paper intends to review and adopting from the Elementary school educational systems in Taiwan. The aim give knowledge to the citizens of the nation who are active in the world of education in the following three ways: how is the portrait of the Taiwan elementary school educational system, how the Taiwan education system compares with the Indonesian educational system and what lessons can be taken from the practice of implementing the educational system in Taiwan. The important things reviewed in the context of the elementary school educational systems in Taiwan are the cornerstone of the philosophy of education, politics and the purpose of education, the structure and type of education, types of schools, and management of education in Taiwan. Then the points are compared with the elementary school educational system in Indonesia. The methods used for this paper are descriptive qualitative and literature studies. This study describes, examines, analyzes and interprets the current conditions. While the literature method is a method of collecting data that is done by adopting the necessary data from the related literature. Some of the important points related to the elementary school educational systems in Taiwan need to be our concern and to adopt it to improve the quality of education in Indonesia.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliza Bartolozzi Ferreira

<p class="apa">This paper analyzes the extension of the right to secondary education in Brazil. Currently, the debate on secondary education has been intensified in civil society highlighting the problem of the reason of its precarious offer, not to mention a significant proportion of young people and adults who have not finished this level of schooling. Opinions vary on how the offer to secondary education should be held: while a minority believes that schooling should be humanistic and scientific; others support integrated education with a technical certification. Others advocate the separation of secondary professional education. This myriad of projects and programs has invaded the educational systems and schools, a portrait of public action in the education area, divided between republicans and private interests, in the context of disputes between the process of democratization and modernization, guided by the excellence of the performance of the institutions and students. This paper has an essay character produced within the research ‘Innovative High School Program: working conditions and teacher education’ with CNPq funding and during the post-doctoral studies conducted at the École Normale Supèrieure de Lyon/France, with CAPES financial support.</p>


2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Laura Oyuela Morales

Resumen El presente artículo aborda la práctica dancística como un escape a los modelos de cuerpo inmóvil construidos por la sociedad, reflexionando acerca de las formas en que la danza puede ser un medio óptimo para el desarrollo del cuerpo en movimiento que hace parte de todos los ámbitos de la vida y cuya praxis puede ser introducida en los sistemas educativos como un eje transversal al aprendizaje y al reconocimiento del mundo. Se plantea entonces el siguiente problema: ¿Cómo la práctica dancística puede ser una estrategia dentro del contexto educativo para el desarrollo de un cuerpo más consciente y atento? Cuestión que es tratada desde una metodología descriptiva y reflexiva fundamentada en la revisión teórica de los conceptos de cuerpo, movimiento, modelos culturales y pedagógicos, y danza, para finalmente sugerir la práctica dancística como una estrategia pedagógica óptima para la construcción de un cuerpo consciente y atento.Palabras clavesCuerpo; danza; disciplina; educación; movimiento; reconocimiento corporal The Practice of Dance as a Strategy Within the Educational Context for the Development of a More Conscious and Attentive BodyAbstract This article approaches the practice of dance as an escape from the models of the still body built by society, reflecting on the ways in which dance can be an optimal medium for the development of the body in movement that is part of all areas of life and whose praxis can be introduced in the educational systems as a transversal axle to the learning and the recognition of the world. The following problem arises: How can dance practice be a strategy within the educational context for the development of a more conscious and attentive body? A question that is treated from a descriptive and reflexive methodology based on the theoretical revision of the concepts of body, movement, of cultural and pedagogical models, and of dance, to finally suggest the practice of dance as an optimal pedagogical strategy for the construction of a conscious and attentive body.KeywordsBody; dance; discipline; education; movement; body recognition.Practica Dancística sug estrategiasina ukuma contexto educativo desarrollopepa sug cuerpomanda mas consiente  y atento Maillallachiska:Kai articulok aborda chi practica Dancistica mitikugsina modelos  cuerpo mana kuiurri ruraska  sociedadpe, iuiarrspa imasa danzak kangapaka sug medio suma cuerpo kuiurringapa ambitope kaugsaipe y chik churrangapa iachachiikunape sug eje transversalsina iachaikuipe reconocimiento kai mundope. Churrarenme negpek kai problema: ¿imasa practica dancistikak pódenme kanga sug estrategia sug cuerpok kacho mas consiente y atento?  Cuestión ka  tratareska sug metodología y descriptiva y reflexiva fundamentada kauaska teorica concepto cuerpo, kuiuriska, modelo cultural  y pedagógico  y danza, chasa nispak mañansapa practica dancística sug  estrategia pedagógica suma iuñachinpaga sug cuerpo conciente y atento. Rimangapa Ministidukuna:Cuerpo; danza; disciplina; educación; kuiurii; reconocimiento corporalLa pratique de la dance comme une stratégie dans le contexte éducatif pour le développement d'un corps plus conscient et attenteRésumé  Cet article aborde la pratique de la danse comme une évasion des modèles du corps immobile construits par la société, en réfléchissant sur les façons dont la danse peut être un moyen optimal pour le développement du corps en mouvement qui fait partie de tous les domaines de la vie et dont la praxis peut être introduite dans les systèmes éducatifs comme un axe transversal à l'apprentissage et à la reconnaissance du monde. Le problème suivant se pose : comment la pratique de la danse peut-elle être une stratégie dans le contexte éducatif pour le développement d'un corps plus conscient et attentif ? Une question qui est traitée à partir d'une méthodologie descriptive et réflexive basée sur la révision théorique des concepts du corps, du mouvement, des modèles culturels et pédagogiques et de la danse, pour finalement suggérer la pratique de la danse en tant que stratégie pédagogique optimale pour la construction d'un corps conscient et attentif. Mots clésCorps; danse; discipline; éducation; mouvement; reconnaissance corporelle


Equilibrium ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-113
Author(s):  
Wiktor Morohin ◽  
Aleksandrs Rubanovskis

The quality of the workforce is a precondition for economic growth of a society. One of the main indicators of these preconditions is education. The effectiveness of economies of developed countries is based on the high quality of knowledge. As a resutl the quality and balanced education determines the rating of a state in the world and serves as a driving force of national economic development. The aim of the article is to identify opportunities that will allow integrating the balanced education in the educational systems of the national economy.


The purpose of this study is to make an attempt to assess the innovation activity on the achieved result , expressed in indicators that determine the socioeconomic level of country development, as it is the purpose of innovation In the applied method of calculating the evaluation of the effectiveness of innovation (Data environment Analysis) these indicators were the results, while the indicators of innovation were considered as a "resource". Rental indicators, Gini index and others , reflecting (directly or indirectly) the result of innovations was also taken into account. The results showed values that were less inconsistent with the estimates for other related indexes and indicators , while the evaluation with existing methods gave more inaccurate results. This suggests that the proposed method gives a more objective assessment of the innovation level in the country and more accurately determines the country 's place in the world ranking. The main source of the world economy development today is the innovation, an integrated assessment of which on a national scale can itself act as an indicator of the level of economic and — in a broader sense — the socio-economic level of the country development . From this point of view, an objective assessment of the innovation development level, as well as the development and proposal of methods for its evaluation are still relevant. Up-to-date assessment methods mainly assess the potential of countries to develop innovations, while their achieved level should be assessed, since, with significant differences in the development of countries , these potential opportunities can be realized to varying degrees.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Hsu ◽  

Kant distinguishes two notions of the sublime: the mathematically sublime and the dynamically sublime. In the case of both notions, the experience of the sublime consists in a feeling of the superiority of our own power of reason, as a super sensible faculty, over nature. (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) The concept of the sublime was associated with nature in late 18th and early 19th century aesthetics. Political philosopher and states-man Edmund Burke evoked human mortality in A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, defining the sublime as experience of the overwhelming magnitude of phenomena in the natural world which causes “a sort of delightful horror, a sort of tranquility tinged with terror; which, as it belongs to self-preservation, is one of the strongest of all the passions.” Kant, in contrast to Burke, defines rationality is an important component of the experience of the sublime: “The sublime is to be found in an object even devoid of form, so far as it immediately involves, or else by its presence provokes a representation of limitlessness, yet with a super-added thought of its totality.” That is, reason--super-added thought--allows us to comprehend and challenge the entirety of that which is beyond comprehension. He writes that “the feeling of the sublime in nature is respect for our own vocation . . . this feeling renders as it were intuitable the supremacy of our cognitive faculties on the rational side over the greatest faculty of sensibility.” For Kant, in other words, the experience of the sublime was the oscillation between sensation and rationality in the face of the overwhelming-ness of phenomena in the world.


Author(s):  
Andrew Gibbons

Tragedy is a central theme in the work of Albert Camus that speaks to his 46 years of life in “interesting times.” He develops a case for the tragic arts across a series of letters, articles, lectures, short stories, and novels. In arguing for the tragic arts, he reveals an epic understanding of the tensions between individual and world manifest in the momentum of liberalism, humanism, and modernism. The educational qualities of the tragic arts are most explicitly explored in his novel The Plague, in which the proposition that the plague is a teacher engages Camus in an exploration of the grand narratives of progress and freedom, and the intimate depths of ignorance and heroism. In the novel The Outsider Camus explores the tragedy of difference in a society obsessed with the production of a normal citizen. The tragedy manifests the absurdity of the world in which a stranger in this world is compelled to support the system that rejects their subjectivity. In The Myth of Sisyphus Camus produces an essay on absurdity and suicide that toys with the illusion of Progress and the grounds for a well-lived life. Across these texts, and through his collection of letters, articles, and notes, Camus invites an educational imagination. His approach to study of the human condition in and through tragedy offers a narrative to challenge the apparent absence of imagination in educational systems and agendas. Following Camus, the tragic arts offer alternative narratives during the interesting times of viral and environment tragedy.


Author(s):  
Kehbuma Langmia

This chapter examines a bi-polar ideological constructs of Western and Non-western modes of education within the Historically Black Colleges and Universities educational system. Western curricula have ‘colonized' Black world educational systems for centuries making it hard to inculcate African ontological and epistemological ideologies in most universities. As a result, the birth of HBCUs was a welcome relief as African Americans and Blacks from Africa, Latin America, Caribbean and Europe found a ‘home' to be ‘historically aware' of their lineage and ancestry. This chapter makes a case through critical literature to argue that sustaining and empowering these Black Colleges and Universities through Western and Non-western educational traditions constitute the barometer for success. This would ensure their long lasting role in higher education in the United States and the world.


Author(s):  
Araigul Kozhakhmetova ◽  
Lyazzat Beisenbayeva

New approaches, methods, and tools are necessary for the implementation of the modern management system in educational organizations. The main purpose of this chapter is to determine using the lean method in foreign language teaching. The lean method is new in educational systems, but it is used in different spheres of industries all over the world. This chapter shows the history, its implementation, experiments, and how it can be used and developed further. Lean in education will create a clear understanding of its importance on lean process and increase the motivations of administrations, teachers, and students.


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