The mechanisms of distortion between ages and courses in Brazil: an ethnic and social divide, and a challenge for education policy

Authors

  • Xavier Rambla Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • Rosangela Saldanha Pereira Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
  • Liliana María Gallego Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v21n49.2013

Keywords:

educational development, ethnic studies, social inequalities, educational disadvantage.

Abstract

The article contextualises over-age enrolment within the social divisions affecting the education system in Brazil. The following section analyses to what extent the components of multidimensional poverty impinge on the probability for a student to attend a course corresponding to a lower age. This analysis is helpful to discuss two mechanisms that provoke educational inequalities according to the international specialists. These are the accumulation of accumulation of material, social and cultural deprivation along people’s life, and opportunity hoarding through social closure. Both of them contribute significantly to over-age enrolment in Brazil.

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Author Biographies

Xavier Rambla, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Xavier Rambla is Associate Professor of sociology at the Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona (ESP), and was lecturer at the Univ. Vic (ESP, 1995-2001). He has researched globalisation, education and inequalities by leading projects on Education for All in Latin America (2009-2011), as well as on education and anti-poverty policies in the Southern Cone (2006-2008), by collaborating in projects on education and social cohesion in Europe (2003-2005), and by participating in critical co-educational action- research in several regions in Spain (1995-2000). As a visiting lecture, he has taught these issues in a number of European and Latin American universities for short periods.

Rosangela Saldanha Pereira, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

Possui graduação em Ciências Econômicas pela Universidade de Brasília (1981) e doutorado em Educação pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (2002). Desde 1993 é professora do departamento de Economia da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Tem experiência na área de Economia, com ênfase em Planejamento e avaliação de Políticas Públicas, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: Economia da Educação, Economia do Trabalho, Políticas Sociais, com abordagem de gênero e raça

Liliana María Gallego, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Liliana María Gallego es candidata a Doctora en Economía Aplicada y en Sociología en la UAB. Su tesis doctoral en economía estudia el "Bienestar y género en Medellín-Colombia 2006-2010: tres estudios aplicados" y su tesis doctoral en sociología analiza "Los mecanismos causales de la educabilidad: aplicación al caso de Brasil, 2010".

Es investigadora en el proyecto: "Los progresos y las limitaciones de la Educación para Todos". Anteriormente trabajó en el proyecto de formación para el empleo en Medellín (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo 2002-2004) y fue profesora e investigadora en la Universidad de Antioquia (2003-2004).

Sus áreas de investigación son la pobreza, la desigualdad, el bienestar, las capacidades, la política pública y la política social.

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Published

2013-05-26

How to Cite

Rambla, X., Saldanha Pereira, R., & Gallego, L. M. (2013). The mechanisms of distortion between ages and courses in Brazil: an ethnic and social divide, and a challenge for education policy. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 21, 49. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v21n49.2013

Issue

Vol. 21 (2013)

Section

Articles