Call for papers for the 2026 dossier “Affirmative Action in Postgraduate Education: Evidence and Contested Perspectives”

Revista PerCursos– Faed/Udesc will accept for analysis, until 10/06/2025, articles, reviews, interviews, and Portuguese translations of unpublished articles related to the theme of the dossier “Affirmative Action in Postgraduate Education: Evidence and Contested Perspectives”

Over the past two decades, significant progress has been made in the enactment of legal provisions that, in addition to strengthening existing initiatives, have driven the creation and implementation of affirmative action policies in public higher education. Beyond admission, these laws have also focused on student permanence and degree completion, highlighting the need for different institutional arrangements to provide assistance, follow up, and support to students from groups covered by affirmative action policies. This reality has been expanding into postgraduate education as well.

Considering that higher education is a field of study that requires updated and contextualized research on national and international public policies, this dossier aims to highlight the developments of affirmative action policies within institutional policies and practices that support access to postgraduate education for Black, mixed-race, quilombola, and Indigenous students, as well as transgender, travesti, and students with disabilities, global developmental disorders, and high abilities in stricto sensu postgraduate programs in education.

The initial impact, in terms of identifying postgraduate education policies and programs that adopt affirmative actions for specific groups, lies in contributing to the mapping of initiatives undertaken by higher education institutions across different regions of the country, showcasing how these strategies are structured according to the demands they address. Moreover, at a national level, the articles should present studies aimed at analyzing how and which public universities have promoted the inclusion of historically excluded groups in this level of education, contributing to the advancement of academic-scientific research on affirmative action policies and diversity.

The articles to be submitted should preferably address the Brazilian context. However, texts that deal with the topic in Latin America, the Global South, and international research on affirmative policies and/or access, permanence, and degree completion in postgraduate education are also accepted.

Based on the above, we propose three thematic lines for article submissions: Affirmative action policies in postgraduate education; Trajectories and characteristics of groups accessing postgraduate education through affirmative action policies;  e Admission and permanence of students in postgraduate education in the Brazilian, Latin American, Global South, and international contexts.

The dossier will be part of the 2026 edition and will be organized by professors Carina Elisabeth Maciel (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul), Anderson Teixeira Boanafina (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz/Ministério da Saúde), Arthane Menezes Figueirêdo (Universidade Federal do Amapá) e Cassiano Caon Amorim (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)

The rules for submission are available on the journal’s website:

https://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/percursos/about/submissions