The Edelstein Center was established in 2004, by Joel Edelstein,[2] a USA citizen living in Brazil. From its inception is directed by Bernardo Sorj[3] and the Board of Advisors includes Adama Samassékou (Mali), Angelina Peralva (France), Daniel Pécaut (France), Giorgio Alberti (Italy), Guillermo O'Donnell (in memoriam, Argentina), Jean-Michel Blanquer (France) Julio Cotler (Peru), Sérgio Costa (Germany), Shepard Forman (United States) and Simon Schwartzman (Brazil).
This research program concentrates on the impact of new information and communications technology on the transformation of Latin America's education system, public space and democratic life.[8][9] Recently the Edelstein Center has completed a research on the use of computers and Internet by public school teachers in Rio de Janeiro.[10] The study indicates that even when they have a positive impact, they cannot be separated from the educational and human context. A comprehensive policy needs to properly training teachers, in particular confronting the difficulties of the older generation, use monitored software, and adequate maintaining the physical infrastructural and technical support for school computer labs.
Civil Society and Globalization Agendas
The Civil Society and Globalization Agendas research program focuses on the current changes in Latin America’s civil society. Civil society played an important role in the promotion of democracy during the period of military dictatorships. However, more recently, civil society organizations have expanded and changed profoundly. While continuing to play an important role in the defense of human rights, in many countries civil society has become a vehicle for political parties, individual politicians, unions and social movements to channel public funds for their own benefit and/or political cooptation.[11][12][13]
Plataforma Democrática site's includes a virtual library[27] of free access with 15.000 academic titles, more than hundred original papers and the book series The State of Democracy in Latin America.[28]
Bernardo Sorj is a Brazilian social scientist, retired professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is Director of The Edelstein Center for Social Research and of the Plataforma Democrática Project. He has published 30 books and more than 100 articles, on Latin American political development, international relations, the social impact of new technologies, social theory and Judaism.
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Simon Schwartzman is a Brazilian social scientist. He has published extensively, with many books, book chapters and academic articles in the areas of comparative politics, sociology of science, social policy, and education, with emphasis on Brazil and Latin America. He was the President of the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and is a retired professor from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He is member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, holder of the Grand Cross of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit (1996). He is currently associate researcher at the Institute for Studies in Economic Policy Instituto de Estudos de Política Econômica / Casa das Garças - Rio de Janeiro.
Ruth Vilaça Correia Leite Cardoso GCIH was a Brazilian anthropologist and a member of the faculty of philosophy, letters and human sciences at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). She was the wife of 34th president of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and First Lady of her country between 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2002. She too was a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of São Paulo.
Carlos Andrés Escudé Carvajal was an Argentine political scientist and author, who during the 1990s served as special advisor to foreign minister Guido di Tella. As such, he advised on Argentine foreign policy strategy vis-à-vis the Western powers particularly in the wake of the Falklands War.
Guillermo Alberto O'Donnell Ure was a prominent Argentine political scientist who specialized in comparative politics and Latin American politics. He spent most of his career working in Argentina and the United States, and who made lasting contributions to theorizing on authoritarianism and democratization, democracy and the state, and the politics of Latin America. His brother is Pacho O'Donnell.
Daniel Innerarity Grau is a Spanish philosopher and essayist.
Tulio Halperin Donghi was an Argentine historian. After earning a Ph.D in history and a law degree at the University of Buenos Aires, he taught at the institution's Faculty of Arts from 1955 to 1966. Halperin Donghi then moved to the National University of the Litoral, where he was named dean. He later taught at Oxford University, and became a faculty member of the University of California, Berkeley in 1972.
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Bernardo Kliksberg is an Argentine Doctor of Economics, recognized around the world as the founder of a new discipline, social management, and a pioneer of development ethics, social capital and corporate social responsibility. His books, papers, advisory work, and research, applies an interdisciplinary approach integrating contributions of different social sciences.
Atilio Borón is an Argentine Marxist sociologist.
Leonardo Morlino is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at LUISS "Guido Carli" University specializing in comparative politics.
Diego Golombek is an Argentine biologist, communicator and popularizer of science. He is currently professor at National University of Quilmes and researcher at CONICET. He is author of several books about biology and related topics, although he is mainly known due to his appearances on radio and television.
Cristián Parker Gumucio is a Chilean sociologist, a specialist in the sociology of religion in Latin America. He holds a Ph D. in Sociology from the Université catholique de Louvain and a degree in Sociology. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Santiago, Chile, where he is a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Director of the Master's program in Social Sciences with major in Civil Society Studies, and vice-chancellor of postgraduate studies. One of his major works, Popular Religion and Capitalist Modernization in Latin America (Orbis), has been published in several editions, including translations into English and Portuguese.
Cecilia Braslavsky was an Argentine educator, pedagogue, and author. She served as Director-General of Educational Research in the Argentine Ministry of Education and Director of UNESCO's International Bureau of Education.
Edgardo Lander is a Venezuelan sociologist and left-wing intellectual. A professor emeritus of the Central University of Venezuela and fellow of the Transnational Institute, he is the author of numerous books and research articles on democracy theory, the limits of industrialization and economic growth, and left-wing movements in Latin America.
Andrea Graciela Giunta is an Argentine art historian, professor, researcher, and curator.
Tomás Várnagy was an Argentine social scientist and philosopher, professor at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
María Antonia Ruth Sautu is an Argentine sociologist and methodologist.
Bila Sorj is a Brazilian academic and pioneer of women's studies. Born in Brazil, she made aliyah to Israel to work communally on a kibbutz and earn her bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Haifa. Returning to Brazil in 1976, she taught sociology and began incorporating women's studies into her work at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Completing her PhD at the University of Manchester in 1979, she began teaching at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1984. She completed post-doctorate studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. Her research primarily focuses on employment and the ways that gender affects both paid and unpaid labor. She also studies Judaism. Her 2000 book, Israel terra em transe: democracia ou teocracia?, was a finalist for the Prêmio Jabuti in 2001. She is the coordinator of the Núcleo de Estudos de Sexualidade e Gênero in the graduate program of the department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is regarded as one of the academics who opened the field of gender studies in Brazil.
↑ [SORJ, Bernardo; LISSOVSKY, Mauricio. Internet in Brazilian Public Schools: Policies beyond Politics. Rio de Janeiro: The Edelstein Center for Social Research, Working Paper nº 6, May 2011. http://www.centroedelstein.org.br/PDF/WP_6_English.pdf]
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