Category: Human Sciences

Football student-athletes in Brazil tend to prioritize sports careers

Young people playing soccer on a grass field (society soccer field).

Young athletes in Brazil prioritize their soccer career over their studies. In addition to the conciliation of study routines with training/competitions in soccer clubs, there is a tendency to move to the evening teaching period due to the daily demands of the clubs, which reduces the length of stay in school. Read More →

Race, gender and sexual diversity as a challenge for the intersectional approach in education

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Discussing the importance of an intersectional approach to the concepts of race, gender and sexual diversity in articulation with economic and social inequalities in education has become a contemporary agenda. This theoretical orientation has contributed to the deepening of the dialog between educational research and other areas of human sciences and social sciences. Read More →

The concept of inclusion presents practical contradictions and reveals the need to transform spaces

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The concept of inclusive education aims to highlight the existing gaps in its idea and conception, which had been signified as an organic principle of modernity in terms of the construction of an egalitarian society. Therefore, it denounces the thoughtless acceptance of this contradictory compound through robust historical analysis, pointing to the need for dialectical overcoming of this idea. Read More →

A shattered organisational culture or the effects of temporality within the school context

An hourglass with falling sand (most of the sand is at the bottom). In the background is a blurred photo of a classroom. You can see the room clearly through the glass of the hourglass.

Within the context of the culture of school organizations in Portugal, the effects of the New Public Management and the digitalization of education on the development of fragmented forms of culture were enhanced by the increased individualism, adherence to instrumental logics of action, and a diminished sense of belonging to the organization. Read More →

The unsaid about “eadization” in Higher Education

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It is understood that the Brazilian Higher Education concept of “eadization” is recent and must be monitored so that its identity and function are not lost. It is possible to observe that the flexibility given by the insertion of a percentage (up to 40%) in the workload of face-to-face higher education courses dedicated to Distance Education supports a process of reconfiguration from the symbiosis. Read More →

“NÓIS É*”: childhoods and feminisms in social practices of peripheral collectives on the pandemic

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Due to the covid-19 pandemic, collectives contributed to maintaining the life of the peripheric population. The performance of women and their relationship with children allowed us to think about the possible construction of a collective pedagogy that approaches the Common, a principle based on collaboration and self-management, opposing hierarchies and patriarchy. Read More →

No to the militarization of management in public school

Bolsonaro talking to students and teachers in the gymnasium of a military school

The Nacional Program of Civic-Military Schools implemented by the Bolsonaro government in 2019, prescribes an authoritarian proposal for education and threatens our democracy. This study analyzed the conservative demands articulated in this Program and the reasons why the molds of the military schools have been praised as a solution to educational problems. Read More →

Children and the use of social media in the fight against COVID-19: Is it possible to talk about child activism?

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The presence of children in social media has been the subject of several researches and also of concern of parents and specialists about the risks related to this practice. For this reason, a new possibility for understanding this phenomenon is presented, called children’s digital activism, with a focus on coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More →

Is today’s “today” tomorrow’s “yesterday”? On the cognitive significance of thought and discourse about the self, time and space

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This special issue is dedicated to Vojislav Božičković’s recently published monograph The Indexical Point of View and contains five critical notices written by experts and the author’s responses. It will surely be of interest to all those keen to know more about recent philosophical debates on self-knowledge, indexical belief and the intersubjectivity of thought. Read More →

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and a psychodramatic experience

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When we discuss Autism Spectrum Disorder, it’s necessary to understand the uniqueness of each individual and apply therapies that best meet the needs of each one. Therefore, this research addresses a psychodramatic-based clinical case with a child within ASD and shows the importance of dialogue on the subject to reach better development conditions, and advances in the production of knowledge in the area. Read More →