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Kim, Woomee L.; Borup, Jered; Shin, Joan Kang; Evmenova, Anna S. – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2023
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can provide important professional learning opportunities for teachers throughout the world. Despite high enrollment rates, learner engagement in MOOCs has been generally low, as reflected in their low completion rates. This is in part due to a combination of high flexibility and limited support and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, MOOCs, Faculty Development, Blended Learning
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Seemiller, Corey; Grace, Meghan; Dal Bo Campagnolo, Paula; Mara Da Rosa Alves, Isa; Severo De Borba, Gustavo – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2021
The purpose of this article is to uncover what makes learning enjoyable for Generation Z college students (born 1995-2010) in the United States (U.S.) and Brazil. Qualitative data from 1,282 participants in the U.S. and 775 participants in Brazil were analyzed independently and for comparison using content analysis and thematic coding. The results…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Positive Attitudes, Learning Motivation
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Vieira, Luciana dos Santos; Meirelles, Daniela Andrade; Emmendoerfer, Magnus – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2023
Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) has become increasingly prominent in the public sector and in educational organizations. A policy for educational management based on EO has dimensions related to innovation, proactiveness, and risk-taking, which are preceded by organizational characteristics such as management support, discretion/autonomy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Robinson, John; Alhakim, Andi Darell; Ma, Grace; Alam, Monisha; Brando, Fernanda da Rocha; Braune, Manfred; Brown, Michelle; Côté, Nicolas; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano; Garza, Ana Karen; Gorman, David; Hajer, Maarten; Madden, John; Melnick, Rob; Metras, John; Newman, Julie; Patel, Rutu; Raven, Rob; Sergienko, Kenneth; Smith, Victoria; Tariq, Hoor; van der Lem, Lysanne; Wong, Christina Nga Jing; Wiek, Arnim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Governance, Barriers, Universities
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Wittman, Hannah – Journal of Rural Studies, 2009
This paper investigates the changing relationship between land, citizenship, and power in Brazil, where land-related policies have historically served to situate political and economic rights in the hands of an elite land-owning minority. In response, contemporary grassroots movements in Brazil, including the Landless Rural Workers Movement…
Descriptors: Activism, Participant Observation, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
OECD Publishing, 2021
The "Education in Brazil: An International Perspective" report was developed drawing on internationally comparative data on education in Brazil, in particular the extensive range of data collected by the OECD through its surveys. The experiences of other countries and how they have tackled challenges similar to those now faced by Brazil,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Comparative Education, Early Childhood Education
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Scott, David M.; Kawalilak, Colleen; Dressler, Roswita; Alves de Paiva, Wilson – Comparative Education Review, 2019
This article offers findings from a qualitative case-based research study examining the ways educators in central Brazil made sense of diversity, and the extent to which they believed recent policies promoting ethnocultural diversity are being realized in K-12 contexts. The research team also examined the degree to which these educators felt that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Diversity, Educational Policy
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Madero, Cristobal – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
In this study, descriptive and comparative in nature, I analyze teachers' dissatisfaction with their profession in Chile, Brazil, and Mexico (N = 10,846). Using data from the 2013 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), I question whether extrinsic and intrinsic elements of school organizations, in addition to teachers' personal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Barros, Sandro – Educational Theory, 2020
Since first published in English in 1970, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" has inspired generations of scholars and social activists to examine the inherent potential of Paulo Freire's theories on grassroots intellectual emancipation and education in marginalized communities. The interpretive lineage of Freire's writings is vast, indeed. To…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Disadvantaged, Teaching Methods, Critical Theory
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dos Santos Barbosa da Silva, Matheus; Kasseboehmer, Ana Cláudia – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2023
In this paper, we present our study into how teaching practices in chemistry are socially stratified under the center-suburban divide in a medium-sized city, located in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The paper mainly draws upon the Bourdieusian-inspired concepts of institutional habitus and symbolic capital to examine how institutional discourses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
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Waldvogel, Dieter A.; de Souza, Ismênia Sales – Hispania, 2017
Brazil's meteoric rise as Latin America's economic superpower has prompted the United States government to reassess its strategic vision of South America and its relationship with Brazil. The next generation of US economic, business, political, and military leaders will likely be faced with a South American landscape heavily dominated by Brazil.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Portuguese
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Schnitman, Gabriel; Gomes, Danila; Deckelbaum, Dan; Utiyama, Edivaldo Massazo – Health Education Research, 2022
Health literacy, culture and language play vital roles in patients' understanding of health issues. Obstacles are more evident in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where inadequate patient education levels are higher and hospital resources are lower. This is a prospective pilot study assessing the feasibility of digital preoperative…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Multimedia Materials, Animation, Health Education
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Nogueira, Viviane Brito; Teixeira, Diego Gomes; de Lima, Ivan Alisson Cavalcante Nunes; Moreira, Marcus Vinícius Chaves; de Oliveira, Bárbara Sthéphane Caixeta; Pedrosa, Iago Matheus Bezerra; de Queiroz, Jose Wilton; Jeronimo, Selma Maria Bezerra – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
About half of the world's population remains without access to internet in an era of digital transformation. In this study, we aimed to investigate the impact of implementing the use of logic and mathematics through digital literacy on a population of elementary school students in a town in Northeast Brazil. In a non-randomized experimental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Internet, Educational Technology
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Vidoni, Carla; Ferraz, Osvaldo Luiz – Physical Educator, 2019
This study examines how curriculum in physical education (PE) in Brazil has evolved in the last 20 years. Since the beginning of the 20th century, PE in the Brazilian schools has been influenced by different conceptual, political, philosophical, scientific, and pedagogical trends. The most influential trends were originated from medical field,…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Physical Education, Guidelines, Foreign Countries
Hata, Luli – Horizontes, 1997
Shows, in "Cordel" literature (a popular manifestation found in northeastern Brazil) an expressive source for the analysis of popular culture in Brazil. Uses this literature to discuss images of reading. (PA)
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Popular Culture, Reading
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