This article aims to understand the role of formal, non-formal and informal education in the training of three women who have an active participation in social movements and unions. The methodology used was semi-structured ...

This paper discusses the long-run history of education policies in Brazil. It is suggested that the main reason for the educational backwardness was the existence of strong political interests over education. It is also ...

This chapter reviews citizenship education in Chile as a national public policy vis-à-vis the international academic and political debates in the field. Chile’s citizenship education policy appears highly conditioned by ...

Despite the relevance of qualitative methods in political science, the process of teaching qualitative research has received relatively little attention in the literature. What is it like to teach qualitative research in ...

Reformers in developing countries increasingly seek to raise education quality. Yet we know little about the politics of improving education. One significant and instructive case of reforms designed to boost education ...

The text tries to present some reflections on certain aspects regarding special education related to the 20-year period of validity of the Law on Brazilian Education Guidelines and Bases (LDBEN). It presents some considerations ...

Mapuche intellectuals and political activists in early- to mid-20th-century Chile both worked within and subverted dominant modernizing and “civilizing” educational discourses. Mapuche women played an important role in the ...