“A History of Adventist Higher Education in Brazil: 1969-1999”

Authors

  • Renato Stencel

Keywords:

history, higher education, adventist, Brazil, university, development, Unasp.

Abstract

 This research has the purpose to study the insertion and the expansion dinamycs that marked the history of SDA higher education in Brazil between 1969 to 1999, pointing the contextual factors that contribuited to its creation and development. Firstly, it purports to analyze the fenomena that happened since the beginnings of the SDA Church, starting from its genesis in the USA till its arrival and development in Brazil. In a second moment, it analyzes the contextual factors that characterized the brazilian higher educational history, pointing the moment in which the protestant movements settled its first higher educational institutes in Brazil in the last decades of the 19th century. This context will cast the historical foundations in order to obtain a better understanding of the very moment in which the SDA Church opens its first college course in the Country. Thirdly, the research examine the role and the importance that the adventist education exercised in the developmental process of the SDA Church since the establishment of the International College, Curitiba in 1896, till the fulfillment of the opening proposal of the first higher educational course, Nursing, in 1969, in the Brazil College, the consolidation of the Brazilian University Center, the installation act of its first rector in 1999 and the unfolding development that happened in several denominational institutions throughout www.unasp.edu.br/kerygma/dissertacoes5.02.asp 60 Brazil. Finally, the work examines the extra and intradenominational components that acted as facilitator or inhibitor agents in the establishment of SDA University in Brazil.

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Published

2007-03-27

How to Cite

STENCEL, R. “A History of Adventist Higher Education in Brazil: 1969-1999”. Kerygma, Engenheiro coelho (SP), v. 3, n. 1, p. 59–60, 2007. Disponível em: https://revistas.unasp.edu.br/kerygma/article/view/272. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.

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Resumos de Teses e Dissertações