Chantal Medaets is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the School of Education at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), where she coordinates the Anthropology and Education Research Center (Ceape). She holds a Master's Degree in Education (2009) and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology (2015) both from Paris Descartes University. She has carries out research on indigenous and river dweller childhoods and forms of socialization in the Lower Tapajós region in the Brazilian Amazon, analyzing parenting styles, informal education (out of school transmission and learning practices) and its connections to the school. In her current research project, she deals with different aspects of the indigenous presence in Higher Education in Brazil, combining ethnographic fieldwork at Unicamp with the analysis of intercultural educational politics for Higher Education at a national level. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project has a twofold objective: to conduct articulated ethnographic studies on indigenous students' experiences at Campinas State University and São Carlos Federal University, and to create a research area on Anthropology of Education at Campinas State University that focuses on the use of ethnography to investigate educative processes. Brazil's federal affirmative action policies i…
This project aims to describe and analyze the construction of different femininities in a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Campinas, Brazil, to understand the process of "becoming a girl and a woman" in this context. The research is anchored in an ethnography developed with girls mostly aged 12 to 15 years, for whom issues related to sexuality or love relationshi…
The science communicator will support the development of the research project through four work fronts, all of them carried out together with the other team members: management of the project website, structuring of Ceape's first podcasts and short videos (editing of materials audio and video, insertion of opening and transition vignettes, establishment of recording procedures, format), e…
This research investigates re-elaboration of the ethnic identity of indigenous students in higher education, based on the case of indigenous students at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). We will investigate how ethnic identity is mobilized, re-elaborated and negotiated in the field of relationships built at the university. It is understood that the identity re-elaboration moveme…
Affirmative action policies for higher education in Brazil are among the most ambitious in the world, and the number of indigenous students has grown significantly since the 1990s. The literature has priviledged students enrolled in the humanities, more visible in the university space as they attend or organize events on the indigenous themes. This research aims to portray the experiences…
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This master's research, in progress, investigates the changes that have occurred during the development of the course of indigenous students who entered Unicamp from the first indigenous entrance exam in 2019, capturing the evolutions that occur throughout the university trajectory. One of the points that has already been observed is the emergence of a movement of indigenous women student…
This research aims to describe and analyze different styles of femininity identified among adolescent girls (12 to 15 years old) in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Campinas. Bearing in mind that the school institution appears as central to the construction of the studied group's femininity, the aim is to understand the place that school education and the school occupy in th…
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