This article provides a general overview of the presence of utopia and utopian thought in Brazil. After a brief presentation of the research groups on utopia based in Brazilian universities, the reader will find some ...

These three books take different approaches to analysing the transformative potential of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil. Vergara-Camus' book also examines the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). Carter ...

At a time when all knowledge is 'situated' and no longer 'universal' or 'neutral', the translation of Sheila Jasanoff's reflections about how we should deploy for the good our profoundly human ingenuity raises a question ...

This paper presents the results of an empirical research that sought to estimate the impact of poverty on the Brazilian School Performance Index - Ideb - for elementary schools in more than 5,500 Brazilian municipalities, ...

The present study focuses on the process of independence of Brazil through its construction in the film, performed in 1972, entitled Freedom or Death! Some questions are also raised about the role of the Brazilian population ...

This article reflects about how changes in school mathematics during the Modern Mathematics Movement influence and modify curricular proposals for teaching geometry in Brazil and Portugal. Geometry curriculum is identified ...

Based on an empirical study of climate modeling at Brazil's Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, the article explores how climate modeling represents a pragmatic government approach in the realm of climate change. ...