CMR is pleased to announce a new collaborative project which focuses on Minority Education in Brazil. We will capture education models among Indigenous and Quilombola minorities in Brazil, in a time when minorities and minority education is under explicit threat from the Brazilian government. These will form the basis for a unique interactive online archive of indigenous education practice that can be adapted for other ODA (“Official Development Assistance”) countries. The project was launched in September 2019 and builds off of a workshop held in St Andrews in the spring.
This Challenge-led, interdisciplinary and collaborative research responds to Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)’s strategic objectives in Quality Education provision.
The project is a collaboration between CMR, University of St Andrews, and the Faculty of Education, Federal University of Minas Gerais (Universidade de Minas Gerais/ UFMG) and several Indigenous and Quilombola communities, namely: Comunidade Quilombola de Pinhões (Quilombola Community of Pinhões), the Aldeia Indígena Pataxó Muã Mimatxi (Pataxó Indigenous Village Muã Mimatxi) and the Terra Indígena Xakriabá (Xakriabá Indigenous Land).
It is funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).