Débora Mazza

Débora Mazza is full professor at the Faculty of Education of the State University of Campinas, in the department of Social Sciences. She is Associate Editor of the Education and Society Magazine and researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.

She was a visiting researcher at the Centre de Recherches Sociologiques et Politiques de Paris (CRESPPA), Laboratoire Genre, Travail et Mobilité (GTM) in 2011-2012 and at the Centre de Recherche sur le Brésil Colonial et Contemporain (CRBC) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in 2002-2003. She completed an international mobility assignment at the Université Jean Piaget, Praia, Cape Verde (2015). Since 2019, she has been coordinating the international cooperation agreement between UNICAMP and the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal.

The project

Title: Florestan Fernandes and Brazilian Sociological Thought

"The project aims to analyze the sociologist's contribution to the construction of Brazilian democratic educational policy during the period in which he sat in the National Congress, as a federal deputy, elected by popular vote to fill the mandates of 1987 to 1990 and 1991 to 1995. The aim of the research is to interpret his work in defence of public education as an academic, parliamentarian, activist and columnist in the 1980s and 1990s. The Brazilian education problem permeates his sociological production from the 1940s until his last writings in 1995. It is important to pursue the social value attributed by the author to education as a central element for benefiting from economic, political and social development and cultural autonomy, as well as to dialogue with the critical fortune of the work, particularly the reflections that lie at the interface between sociology and education. In this sense, Brazilian education appears in the field of sustainable development, with a strong impact on the population's quality of life and the country's progress. Consequently, the research is empirically situated in the socio-historical repertoire of Florestan Fernandes' contribution to Brazilian education in the 1980s and 1990s, being able to clarify and support the cycle of public social policies."

Hosting institution: École des Hautes Études et Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Selective Bibliography

• MAZZA, DÉBORA. Paulo Freire, a cultura e a educação: pensando à sombra de uma mangueira. 1. ed. Campinas: Editora da Unicamp, 2022
• MAZZA, DÉBORA; NOROES, K. C. . Educação e Migrações internas e internacionais. um diálogo necessário. 1. ed. Jundiai- São Paulo: Paco Editorial, 2016
• MAZZA, DEBORA; SIMSON, O. R. M. V. (Org.) . Mobilidade Humana e Diversidade Socio Cultural. 999. ed. Jundiai- S.P.: PACO Editorial, 2011.
• MAZZA, DEBORA. A produção sociológica de Florestan Fernandes e a problemática educacional. 1. ed. Taubaté: Cabral Editora e Livraria Universitária, 2003.
• MAZZA, D.. Conversa de Mulher. A construção do feminino no cotidiano popular. Taubaté: Vogal Editora, 1996.