Category: Brazilian Education Fall

  • Brazilian Education – Week 10 – Class Notes

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    We had an eye opening talk by Paula Louzano on the current proposal for national K-12 curriculum standards in Brazil. 

    The talk was in Portugues, thus so were my notes

    Analise Internacional Comparada de Politicas Curriculares: contribuições para o debate da Base Nacional Comum no Brasil

    Inspiração:

    • Carnoy – salas de aula Chile Cuba Brasil – foco em aulas de matematica
    • Livros didaticos fornecidos gratuitiamente – professores compravam curriculos em vez de somente livros

    Foco: curriculos Pesquisa:

    • Estudo comparativo internacional
    • Quem decide o que estudar e como ensinar

    Governo Ferderal centraliza a decisão do que estudar Portugal / Chile

    • O que se ensina: Ministério da Educação
    • Documentos legais que foram entrando em especificidade
      • Currículo Nacional – 2001
      • Programas por disciplina – 2007
      • Metas curriculares por disciplina – 2011

    Finlândia / Nova Zelândia

    • Paises aonde os professores tem maior autonomia
      • É definido o que ensinar
      • Não define como ensinar
      • Metas ao final de 2 anos devem ser atingidas
    • Documentos e leis nacionais
    • Investiram na formação de professores e portanto documentos ficaram menos específicos
    • Período de metas é de dois anos em vez de ano a ano
    • Avaliação é feita por cada professor, baseado em metaas especificadas

    Cuba

    • Governo central definie o que e como
    • Define até o nível da sala aula: passo a passo do conteúdo

    Analise dos modelos

    • Maior centralização
      • Foco na equidade do sistema
      • Capacidade de inovação
      • Alinhamento da formação de professores, material didático e avaliação
    • Maior autonomia às escolas
      • Foco na competência e julgamento do professor em atender os alunos e comunidade local
      • Maior impacto das diferenças nos recuross para cada escola

    Não há consenso de qual é o melhor modelo Brasil nem entra nessa linha comparativa… nem entra na curva… “uma jaboticaba” Diretirzes Curriculares Nacionais para a Educação Básica

    • Base nacional comum, que tem força de lei, especifica somente as matérias obrigatórias.
    • Só agora (2014) que houve um debate nacional sobre o que ensinar
    • Primeiro veio o livro didático, sem orientação curriculas
    • Depois veio o sistema de avaliação externa
      • Com isso, vieram os curriculos feitos pelos Estados e Municípios

    Plano Nacional de Educação – 2014Base Nacional Comum Curricular – 2015

    • http://basenacionalcomum.mec.gov.br
    • Não foi feito um benchmarking
    • Não foi determinado o processo da reforma curricular
    • Brasileiro tem dificuldade de fazer escolhas (formato, conteúdo, foco)
    • Expectativas baixíssimas – baixa preocupação com excelência e equidade
  • Brazilian Education – Week 9 – Class Notes

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    Today we hear Rebecca Tarlau talk about her upcoming book “Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: Public Education Reform and Social Movement-led Participatory Governance” – based on her ethnographic research (20 months living in MST settlements).

    Very interesting to understand where the MST movement came from, how it started and how it provided help, curriculum and influence in the public schools of Brazil.

    Some of her papers:

  • Brazilian Education – Week 8 – Class Notes

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    We listened to Luana Marotta, a fellow Lemann Fellow, present her dissertation’s rough draft. She is a PhD candidate in International Comparative Education admitted in 2012.

    Her research looks at the causes of dropout rates in high schools and is finding that it has a lot to do with retention – in other words, the chances of a student dropping out after he repeats a grade are significant.

  • Brazilian Education – Week 7 – Class Notes

    Talk with Prof. Michael Conniff, who published the book “Urban Politics in Brazil. The Rise of Populism 1925-1945”. We each got a hard copy!

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  • Brazilian Education – Week 7 – Reading Notes

    Assignment: 

    1. Conniff interviews Hermes Lima and Juracy Silveira
    2. Gawryszewski Connie Progressive Schools in RJ

    Notes: 

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  • Brazilian Education – Week 6 – Class Notes

     

    Lecture by Prof. Martin Carnoy on “The ‘Quality of Quantity’: Achievement Gains from Adding a Year to Brazilian Primary Schooling.

    Interesting how simply increasing quantity you improved learning outcomes… after class I heard that there actually were some changes in the teaching structures when the 9 year plan was implemented.

    Surprising to hear that increasing quantity of schooling was cheaper than increasing quality… costs more to train teachers than keeping them more time in school!!?? Can’t seem to be possible – maybe tech is the way to revert it somehow.
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  • Brazilian Education – Week 6 – Reading Notes

    Assignment: 

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    The “Quality of Quantity”: Achievement Gains from Adding a Year to Brazilian Primary Schooling (Oct. 27) – Prof. Martin Carnoy

    Notes: 

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  • Brazilian Education – Week 5 – Class Notes

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    On Tuesday’s class we had the honor of listening to Professor Henry Levin, from Columbia University, will give a talk on his “Benefit Cost Analysis of the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP)

    What I got out of the talk was that measures can be taken to improve education – and they are not highly complex or impossible to implement – students need a little bit of support – scaffolding. Tax payers, policy makers and budget administrators have to come to realize that the more you invest in education, the better off the country will be in the future not only as a society but also financially. Hard to believe but it makes complete sense – the better education one has, the higher salary the have, the more taxes they pay.

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    Notes from the reading are here…

     

  • BRAZILIAN EDUCATION – Reading Notes

    Reading:

    “ASAP Benefit Cost Report”, Levin 2013  (he’s going to talk in class next week 🙂

    Notes:

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    Followup: 

    Investing in education pays back in future taxes.

  • Brazilian Education – Week 3 – Class Notes

    Presentation by Prof. Martin Carnoy – interesting debate about how you cannot compare the US as a whole with other countries since each state and in some cases, municipalities have their own educational system and perform at very different rates.