Towards Multicultural Education for All: The National and International Influences on Brazilian Educational Policy
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- Abstract
- Until recently, Brazil has prided itself in being a country free of discrimination and inequalities based on racial or ethnic differences. However, the Brazilian government has changed its posture and began to acknowledge the disadvantaged position of Indigenous People and the descendants of African slaves. Educational policies were among the first to incorporate this concept. Bilingual education, affirmative action and curriculum changes to include cultural diversity were implemented and a new department–Secretary of Continuous Education, Literacy and Diversity (SECAD)–was created in 2004. To explain these changes in policy, the literature on the development of multicultural education in Brazil and globally identify explanatory factors of a domestic nature but do not take the emergence of a global trend of celebration of diversity into account. The present study analyzes the curricular policies of the Brazilian government as well as recommendations from international and national organizations from 1985 to the present to comparatively examine how issues of cultural diversity and inequality are addressed in educational policies. The analysis identifies three discourses that explain (1) why multicultural education is necessary, (2) the goal of multicultural education, and (3) the content of multicultural education. In addition, the findings demonstrate that international movements and values celebrating multiculturalism have been significant factors in the Brazilian government’s surrendering its myth of racial equality, adoption of educational reforms, and embracing old national movements against racial discrimination.
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| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | August 2010 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Sera, Anna |
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Subjects
| Subject | Brazil |
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| Subject | multicultural education |
| Subject | curricular policies |
| Subject | education policy |
| Subject | Stanford Graduate School of Education International Educational Administration and Policy Analysis |
| Genre | Thesis |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/fh669km1313 |
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