The Ford Foundation Fellowships Program: 12 years of operation in Brazil

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Ford Foundation, Affirmative Action, Scholarship, Academic Description, Lattes Curriculum

Abstract

The goal of this study is to evaluate the first affirmative action initiative developed for graduate students in Brazil, which was called The International Scholarship Program of the Ford Foundation (IFP). The present quantitative evaluation is based on the description of its beneficiary students. The IFP provided postgraduate scholarships for candidates from black, brown and indigenous populations, preferably from Brazil’s North, Northeast and Central-West regions. Based on data from IFP’s records and from the Lattes Platform, we identified the 343 fellows and conducted their scientometric description. The contribution of this study consists in summarizing information about the program’s actual impact on the Brazilian context, as well as its importance to the academic trajectories of its beneficiaries.

 

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Author Biographies

Amelia Artes, Fundação Carlos Chagas - Departamento de Pesquisas Educacionais

Amelia Artes holds PhD in Education, a Master’s Degree in Sociology of Education and a degree in Pedagogy from the University of São Paulo (USP). She has teaching experience in graduate and undergraduate programs and in secondary education. She is currently a researcher at the Department of Educational Research. 

Jesús Pascual Mena-Chalco, Centro de Matemática, Computação e Cognição Universidade Federal do ABC

Jesús Pascual Mena-Chalco holds a degree in Systems Engineering from the National University of San Agustín, and a Master’s degree and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo. He teaches at the Post-Graduation Program in Computer Science and Information Science at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC). 

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Published

2019-10-04

How to Cite

Artes, A., & Mena-Chalco, J. P. (2019). The Ford Foundation Fellowships Program: 12 years of operation in Brazil. Educação & Realidade [Education & Reality], 44(3). Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/educacaoerealidade/article/view/81653

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Vol. 44 No. 3 (2019)

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This journal uses Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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