Challenging Neo-Liberalism, Building Democracy: Creating the Citizen School in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Gandin, Luis Armando; Apple, Michael W.

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Publication Date: 2002

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Challenging Neo-Liberalism, Building Democracy: Creating the Citizen School in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Gandin, Luis Armando; Apple, Michael W.

Journal of Education Policy, v17 n2 p259-79 Mar-Apr 2002

Situates the experience of Porto Alegre in the larger political and educational context of Brazil; presents normative goals of the Citizen School and examines the mechanisms that helped forge these goals; describes and explains some elements of the institutional design of the Citizen School; evaluates potential problems of the project; offers some considerations about its future. (Contains 36 references.) (Authors/PKP)

Descriptors: City Government, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Democratic Values, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Governance, Poverty Areas, Public Education, School Councils, Teacher Participation

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Brazil

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