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Ken Kempner (United States of America) Ph.D. Associate Professor and Co-ordinator for Higher Education, Department of Educational Leadership, Technology, and Administration, University of Oregon. His research addresses the role of higher education in social and economic development, most recently in Brazil, Mexico and Japan. His work has been widely published in the comparative education press. He is senior editor of the Association of Higher Education (ASHE), reader on comparative education for Simon & Schuster and co-editor ofThe social role of higher education: comparative perspectives (1996). He is former co-chair of the ASHE Council on International Higher Education and serves on the editorial boards of theReview of higher education and theJournal of general education.
Ana Loureiro Jurema (Brazil) Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Theory and Foundations in Education, College of Education, Federal University of Alagoas. Her areas of interests are policies for technology in education, higher education, educational psychology, comparative education, social psychology and distance education. As part of a team, she has actively worked on education policies for the public school system in Pernambuco, North-East Brazil, with an extensive involvement in professional development (capacitação). Her work has been published in books and articles, and has been presented at national and international conferences.
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Kempner, K., Jurema, A.L. On becoming a well-behaved economy: The case of Brazilian education. Prospects 29, 105–120 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02736828
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02736828