The press as a research source: Brazil and Mozambique
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https://doi.org/10.5212/PraxEduc.v.21.26516.029Abstract
The aim of this article is to discuss the use of the press as a documentary source in Brazil and Mozambique and examines its contribution to understanding educational phenomena. The relevance of the study lies in its emphasis on the researcher’s critical stance and its rejection of the assumption that the press acts as a neutral observer or conveys absolute truths. The study draws on historical-dialectical materialism and employs bibliographic and documentary research procedures. The findings indicate that, in distinct historical contexts such as those of Brazil and Mozambique, the analysis of the press as a methodological strategy for the comparative study of two different realities reveals, through its written accounts, how the same mode of production gives rise to similar forms of ideological production.
Keywords: Press and education. School and non-school education. Ideology. Brazil and Mozambique.
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