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Modelos culturais americanos nas reformas da educação brasileira nos anos 1930

A lecture by Professor Marta Carvalho, visiting scholar at the Center for Brazilian Studies from University of São Paulo, Brazil

Wednesday, April 27, 2011
3:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
UCLA

Marta Carvalho is Visiting Scholar at the Center for Brazilian Studies. She is a Professor of Education at the University of São Paulo (USP, Brazil). She is currently researching the impact of American textbooks and pedagogical models on Brazilian education in the 1920s and 1930s. In this lecture she will survey the impact of the U.S. travels of Anísio Teixeira, director of public education in 1930s Bahia, on the restructuring of Brazilian education during the Vargas regime.

Cost: Free and open to the public.