Tendencies and Perspectives in Education Research in Brazil: contributions to the global south (Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Educação (ANPED), Brazil)

• In Event: Worldwide Education Research Priorities and Collaborative Opportunities from the Vantage of Education Research Associations

Abstract

Education research in Brazil has grown and consolidated in recent years.
According to a report drawn up by the CGE, the field of Education is one of the largest in terms of Master's and Doctorate courses and the number of students and professors, and is the second largest subject area in the country in terms of scientific production. However, despite this progress in the consolidation process, Brazil has faced a number of disasters in recent years, involving political, environmental, economic and health issues. The advance of the extreme right in the country and the experience of four years with a denialist government has meant a severe delay in the funding and development of research, as well as a systematic attack on universities, research and researchers.

Brazil has seen a significant increase in educational inequalities, exacerbated by the pandemic, and these impacts are still having to be dealt with. In this sense, we understand that scientific research in the field of education needs to face up to the challenges of our time:
a) a time that has lived through and overcome a pandemic that took more than 6 million people worldwide, which in Brazil meant the loss of 700,000 lives;
b) a time that is experiencing the possibility of a technological revolution with the internet of things and artificial intelligence;
c) a time when we once again have a concentration of income among the world's richest 1% close to what we had before the two great world wars of the 20th century, as shown by Tomaz Piquetty's studies on inequality and a recent OXFAM report;
d) a historical moment in which we are repeatedly living with environmental disasters resulting from global warming, which are cruelly affecting populations with rains vs. droughts; waves of heat vs. cold that show how the pattern of economic growth cannot be infinite or irresponsible.
e) a time when wars and the spread of hatred persistently take over our daily lives and affect democracies.

Based on these questions, it is important to point out that, in the recovery of the Brazilian Democratic State over the last year, we have been able to rebuild the country with a set of concerns that seem central to building research agendas that can contribute to the construction of perspectives that boost education in the Global South. In this sense, in Brazil we are mobilizing to debate:
• Educational policies to overcome educational inequalities and guarantee the Right to Education.
• The construction of metrics and evaluation systems that take into account the characteristics of the countries of the Global South.
• A research agenda that considers climate emergencies and sustainable development in education.
• Education funding, democratic management and a national education system
• Valuing education professionals.

Author

• Geovana Mendonça Lunardi Mendes, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina