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The Restructuring of Higher Education in Brazil and the European Union

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The primary goal of this chapter is to analyze the policies implemented by the Brazilian Federal government and the European Union (EU) in the area of higher education based on the analysis of documents produced by multilateral agencies. A second goal of this chapter is to investigate possible relationships between restructuring of Brazilian university model started during the government of president Fernando Henrique Cardoso and the educational policies currently implemented by the EU, which had the 1999 Bologna Declaration as a starting point.

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  1. Laboratório de Estudos da Educação e da Linguagem, Brazil

    Renata Maldonado Da Silva

  2. Centro de Ciências do Homem, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense (Brasil), Brazil

    Renata Maldonado Da Silva

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  1. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina

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  2. Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Brazil

    Sonia Nogueira

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Silva, R.M.D. (2017). The Restructuring of Higher Education in Brazil and the European Union. In: Acosta, F., Nogueira, S. (eds) Rethinking Public Education Systems in the 21st Century Scenario. The World Council of Comparative Education Societies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-020-2_2

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