Learning gender, attaining capital, and demystifying the north: Brazilian women's experiences with the unofficial curriculum of the International Training in Environmental Leadership (ITEL).
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: International Training in Environmental Leadership.; Women -- Brazil -- Attitudes.; Women -- Brazil -- Social conditions.; Feminism -- Brazil.; Environmental protection -- Study and teaching -- Canada.
Description: This study analyses ways in which 22 Brazilian middle-class women experienced three objectives of the unofficial, implicit curriculum of the International Training in Environmental Leadership (ITEL), a non-formal environmental education program with components in Brazil and Canada, and run by the Nucleo Internacional de Educacao e Gestao Ambiental (NIEGA) (International Centre for Environmental Education and Management), a Brazilian NGO. The three unofficial objectives are those of participants' learning of gender and feminist issues, participants' experiences attaining cultural capital, and participants' experiences demystifying the North and reconceptualizing Brazil. While the study shows that the unofficial cultural capital and demystification objectives were realized for the majority of participants, the study suggests that the unofficial gender objective would be served better by being made explicit in ITEL. This study also engages in methodological debates in the realm of critical cross-cultural research, and reveals strategies for white, Northern researchers conducting research in cross-cultural contexts.
Notes: Adviser: Tara Goldstein.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, page: 1935.

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