Abstract
Brazil, a federal republic that occupies 8.5 million square kilometers in South America, entered the second decade of the twenty-first century with a multiethnic Portuguese-speaking population of 190 million people and a gross domestic product of approximately US$2.5 trillion. More than one-fourth of the Brazilian population is engaged in different levels of the education system. About 7 million children are in kindergartens, 30 million in basic schooling, 8.5 million in upper secondary school, 1 million in vocational upper secondary schools, 4 million in youth and adult education (for those who did not complete basic or secondary schooling at the expected age), and 5 million in postschool education.
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De Menezes, L.C., Gualtieri, R.C.E. (2014). Brazil. In: Vlaardingerbroek, B., Taylor, N. (eds) Issues in Upper Secondary Science Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137275967_3
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