Challenges and possibilities for values education in Brazil: Lessons from some school experiences

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https://doi.org/10.1590/2965-1557.037.e202532361

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The Vatican’s Global Compact on Education attempts to foster understanding of existential interconnectedness and to promote human solidarity. This is not straightforward, for humanity is an evolutionary product of inter-group struggles, and the predominant current values worldwide are often unfavourable. Further, many historical, cultural and institutional inheritances in a country like Brazil are particularly problematic. Much work explores possibilities in university-level education to promote the sorts of objective declared in the Global Compact. However, wide impact requires initiatives within mass schooling systems. The main part of this paper thus looks at two experiments in education for values, in primary and secondary schools in Brazil: an attempt to reach large numbers of children at low cost via an online game that raises value questions for discussion; and a smaller-scale experiment in infusing values-awareness into not only specific curricular modules but also overall school operation.

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Des Gasper, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Doutor em Filosofia

Anderson Macedo de Jesus , Erasmus University Rotterdam

Ph.D., ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam

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2025-01-07

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Gasper, D., & Macedo de Jesus , A. (2025). Challenges and possibilities for values education in Brazil: Lessons from some school experiences. Revista De Filosofia Aurora, 37, e202532361. https://doi.org/10.1590/2965-1557.037.e202532361

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Global Education Pact