Happiness! I passed the entrance exam, but the college is private: Paradoxes of Brazilian higher education

• Main Authors: Annor da Silva Junior (Author), Priscilla de Oliveria Martins-Silva (Author), Katia Cyrlene de Araújo Vasconcelos (Author), Vitor Correa da Silva (Author), Mariana Ramos de Melo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Arizona State University, 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Inspired by Martinho da Vila's classic samba, this theoretical essay discusses paradoxes of Brazilian higher education. For this, we traced the evolution of higher education from the colonial period to the present. Based on this evolution, we identified the following paradoxes: the boundary bet...