TY - CHAP
T1 - Pedagogies of Inclusion
T2 - Lessons from Escola Cidadã
AU - Fischman, Gustavo E.
AU - Gandin, Luis Armando
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Soula Mitakidou, Evangelia Tressou, Beth Blue Swadener, and Carl A. Grant 2009.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Located in the south of Brazil, Porto Alegre is the largest urban district and the capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The city has a population of 1,400,000 and from 1989 to 2005 it implemented the Escola Cidadã (Citizen School Project), an educational reform project.1 Escola Cidadã stands out as one of the most innovative urban educational reform projects implemented worldwide (UN, 1996; World Bank, 2000) because it has been successfully educating children and the citizenry of Porto Alegre, and doing so under severe economic constraints and against the rationale of the dominant models of educational reform (Fischman, Ball, and Gvirtz, 2003). In this chapter we will argue that Escola Cidadã has not only improved the quality of education in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, but it has also the potential for becoming a worldwide reference for how we could think about the politics of educational policy and social exclusion.
AB - Located in the south of Brazil, Porto Alegre is the largest urban district and the capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The city has a population of 1,400,000 and from 1989 to 2005 it implemented the Escola Cidadã (Citizen School Project), an educational reform project.1 Escola Cidadã stands out as one of the most innovative urban educational reform projects implemented worldwide (UN, 1996; World Bank, 2000) because it has been successfully educating children and the citizenry of Porto Alegre, and doing so under severe economic constraints and against the rationale of the dominant models of educational reform (Fischman, Ball, and Gvirtz, 2003). In this chapter we will argue that Escola Cidadã has not only improved the quality of education in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, but it has also the potential for becoming a worldwide reference for how we could think about the politics of educational policy and social exclusion.
KW - Educational Policy
KW - Educational Reform
KW - Progression Group
KW - School Council
KW - Thematic Unit
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U2 - 10.1057/9780230622920_5
DO - 10.1057/9780230622920_5
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85143212628
T3 - Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood
SP - 65
EP - 80
BT - Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -