Articles from Brazil
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Equity and inclusion 31 July 2023 Empowering Women Education Workers: Summary of the EILA Regional Network Meeting
The meeting provided an opportunity for analysis of the current situation, workshops and discussions between colleagues from all over the region. Initiatives such as the campaign for the ratification of ILO Convention 190 and the launch of the Network’s Observatory: Sumemos Igualdad (Let’s Ad Equality).
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Leading the profession 26 July 2023 Teachers gather in Brasilia to show what is possible when united through learning circles
On the 25th and 26th of July 2023, the Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project held an in-person seminar in collaboration with the Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação (CNTE) for all participants based in Brazil. The meeting, held in Brasilia, was a powerful representation of what teachers can...
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Leading the profession 25 July 2023 Working with teachers in classrooms to build bottom-up evaluation practices in Brazil
On the 25th and 26th of July 2023, the Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project held an in-person seminar in collaboration with the Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação (CNTE) for all participants based in Brazil. The meeting, held in Brasilia, was a powerful representation of what teachers and...
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Leading the profession 20 July 2023 Brazilian teachers highlight that work in learning circles must be supported by policy change
The Teacher-Led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project continues to progress in Brazil, with the aim of providing teachers with the space to identify, test and develop formative assessment practices that respond to the unique learning needs of students in classrooms across the country.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 July 2023 Addressing and combating racism through education in Brazil
Luanda Julião
“Raise your hand if you have ever been a victim of racism.” That was the first sentence I said to my pupils in a secondary school class, in order to discuss the issue of racism and its social ramifications.
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Future of work in education 20 April 2023 Go Public! Fund Education: Global campaign launched in Latin America
Education International affiliates from across the region came together to coordinate their work on the new global campaign and to urge governments to invest more in public education in their countries.
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Leading the profession 3 April 2023 Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment – First Learning Circles held across Brazil
The Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project began in Brazil in early February. The project in Brazil is coordinated by its dedicated national researcher, Professor Dalila Andrade Oliveira.
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Leading the profession 5 February 2023 Teacher-Led Learning Circles on Formative Assessments: Supporting teachers’ professional development and leadership around the globe
Education International, the global federation of education unions, is launching the Teacher-led Learning Circles on Formative Assessments project with funding from the Jacobs Foundation. The project aims to provide teachers with tools and support to identify and establish effective teacher-led formative assessment practices that can be disseminated within and across...
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Democracy 10 January 2023 Education International condemns the attack on democracy in Brazil
Education International condemns the attack on Brazilian democracy carried out on January 8 by violent mobs incited by defeated former President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Climate action and literacy 5 December 2022 #16Days | Brazilian women fighting to protect the Amazon
Fátima da Silva
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an international UN Women campaign that has been running since 1991 and which provides an opportunity to reflect on the issue of abuse suffered by women around the world. The campaign runs from 25 November to 10 December and this year...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 October 2022 Public-Private Partnerships at no cost to the State & to Society – Is this possible?
Carolina Finette
In this blog post, I share my personal trajectory as a teacher experiencing Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the Brazil countryside and urge stakeholders to reflect on the problems involving such partnerships to education. In addition, I reflect on how such PPPs are a result of the lack of financing in...
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Union renewal and development 23 September 2022 Latin American Pedagogical Movement renews its commitment to Paulo Freire’s legacy
The closing of the Paulo Freire centenary celebrations brought together hundreds of people representing trade union organisations from all over Latin America at the Concha Acústica of the Federal University of Pernambuco.
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Equity and inclusion 22 September 2022 Women education workers in Latin America join forces in the fight for gender equality in unions, education, and societies
The regional meeting of the Education International Latin America (EILA) Women Education Workers’ Network, widely attended by women from almost every country in the region, took place in Recife, Brazil.
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Trade union rights are human rights 15 September 2022 Latin America and the world to celebrate Paulo Freire's legacy
This commemoration will take place at the closing of the events to mark Freire's centenary in Recife, Brazil. Activities include the VI Meeting of the Latin American Pedagogical Movement and the Meeting of the Education International Latin America (EILA) Network of Education Workers.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 5 August 2021 The militarisation of schools in Brazil: a threat to the educational process and to democracy.
Fátima da Silva
The election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil in 2018, led not only to a process of deregulating the economy, but it also brought with it a new educational agenda for the country. Despite already existing in different ways before his election, the standard bearers of what is known...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 July 2020 Brazil: Union mobilises to prevent shutdown of public education
The Brazilian National Confederation of Education Workers (CNTE) is mobilizing to prevent the shutdown of public basic education in January 2021 due to lack of funding. This Thursday, CNTE is calling its affiliates and educators from around the globe to put pressure on the country’s congress to vote for the...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 30 June 2020 "Between Pandemic and Pandemonium", by Carlos Abicalil.
Carlos Abicalil
I write this article following the announcement that the Minister of State for Education, Abraham Weintraub, has stepped down from his position: the second such occurrence in the first year and a half of President Bolsonaro’s administration. It has been revealed that he is to take on the role of...
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Trade union rights are human rights 26 May 2020 Brazil: Trade union manifesto urges different approach from Bolsonaro
In Brazil, the Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação (CNTE) has issued a manifesto of measures to safeguard public health and workers’ lives.
Brazil: Trade union manifesto urges different approach from Bolsonaro