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Education Pedagogy and Practices

Education Pedagogy and Practices is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 60k research works in it since 1951. 6.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to education in Brazil, including qualitative research methods, educational policies, teacher training, curriculum development, inclusive education, social inequality, distance learning, pedagogical practices, educational reform, and critical pedagogy.

  • Qualitative Research
  • Educational Policies
  • Teacher Training
  • Curriculum Development
  • Inclusive Education
  • Social Inequality
  • Distance Learning
  • Pedagogical Practices
  • Educational Reform
  • Critical Pedagogy
Research works
60k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
6.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+54%
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Which countries lead Education Pedagogy and Practices research?

By volume, Brazil and Portugal publish the most (14k and 358 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Brazil 14k works
  2. 2 Portugal 358 works
  3. 3 United States 347 works
  4. 4 Spain 186 works
  5. 5 Mexico 153 works
  6. 6 ?? 119 works
  7. 7 Paraguay 87 works
  8. 8 France 73 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 63 works
  10. 10 Chile 61 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Brazil: 90.4%Portugal: 2.4%United States: 2.3%Spain: 1.2%6 others listed: 3.7%90%largest
Brazil14k · 90.4%Portugal358 · 2.4%United States347 · 2.3%Spain186 · 1.2%6 others listed556 · 3.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Education Pedagogy and Practices research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) publishes the most Education Pedagogy and Practices research, followed by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidade Federal do Pará.

Who are the leading researchers in Education Pedagogy and Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Education Pedagogy and Practices include Carlos Fiolhais and Paulo Freiré.

  1. 1 Carlos Fiolhais Portugal 3.9k citations
  2. 2 Paulo Freiré Switzerland 1.1k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Education Pedagogy and Practices research done?

The largest centres of Education Pedagogy and Practices research in 2022–2025 are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Curitiba (Brazil) and Brasília (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Orlando, Araguaína and Blumenau.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 São Paulo Brazil 1.8k works
  2. 2 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 831 works
  3. 3 Curitiba Brazil 446 works
  4. 4 Brasília Brazil 440 works
  5. 5 Fortaleza Brazil 431 works
  6. 6 Salvador Brazil 384 works
  7. 7 Belo Horizonte Brazil 382 works
  8. 8 Belém Brazil 358 works
  9. 9 Recife Brazil 337 works
  10. 10 Florianópolis Brazil 323 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Orlando28.4 works145×
  2. Araguaína20.1 works99×
  3. BlumenauBR · 108.8 works84×
  4. Bento GonçalvesBR · 57.0 works84×
  5. ParanavaíBR · 75.0 works83×
  6. Vitória da ConquistaBR · 121.8 works79×
  7. JoaçabaBR · 36.8 works78×
  8. IndaialBR · 20.2 works78×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Education Pedagogy and Practices than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Education Pedagogy and Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências and Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 10.43%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará: 39, 12.9%Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências: 14, 16.4%Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP): 158, 8.6%Universidade Estadual do Ceará: 168, 7.5%Centro Universitário Adventista de São Paulo: 25, 14.1%Universidade Federal do Pará: 231, 7.0%Universidade Federal do ABC: 57, 9.9%Universidade Federal de São Paulo: 88, 10.3%Federal Institute of São Paulo: 78, 8.9%Universidade de Brasília: 183, 8.7%Instituto Superior d…Universidade Federal…Universidade Estadua…Universidade Estadua…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Universidade Federal do Oeste do ParáBrazil 71.112.9%50.0×39 +372.9%
2 Instituto Superior de Educação e CiênciasPortugal 69.716.4%55.0×14 +133.9%
3 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 69.68.6%14.0×158 +164.2%
4 Universidade Estadual do CearáBrazil 69.17.5%64.8×168 +303.0%
5 Centro Universitário Adventista de São PauloBrazil 69.014.1%79.6×25 +248.2%
6 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 68.67.0%38.7×231 +167.0%
7 Universidade Federal do ABCBrazil 68.69.9%25.7×57 +565.9%
8 Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 68.510.3%14.3×88 +157.2%
9 Federal Institute of São PauloBrazil 67.68.9%75.2×78 +734.7%
10 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 67.08.7%21.7×183 +114.2%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Education Pedagogy and Practices research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 54% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Education Pedagogy and Practices.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.