The Education Systems of the Americas, edited by Sieglinde Jornitz (Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Germany) and Marcelo Parreira do Amaral (University of Muenster, Germany), and published by Springer, is out now.

This edition features a chapter “The education system of Brazil: Historical context and challenges to federative equity” which was contributed by Postdoctoral Researcher Célio da Cunha. This chapter presents the historical evolution around the organisation of education and Brazilian federalism, from the Imperial Constitution of 1824 to the present day. It introduces new actors and arenas that are part of the debates on education policies, particularly since the 1988 Constitution, and discusses the idea of the implementation of the national education system – proposed by the Manifesto of the Pioneers of New Education of 1932 and approved by the National Education Plan 2014, which would allow the overcoming of competence disputes and overlapping policies that are typical of Brazilian federated entities.

You can find the work here.