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Weller, Wivian

Wivian Weller (wivian@unb.br) is Professor of Sociology of Education and Qualitative Research Methods at the Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil, where she teaches classes and conducts research related to generations and youth cultures, youth and school education, gender and education, academic experiences of women and students of families with low income, and comparative study about students in Brazilian and Chinese universities.

Professor Weller obtained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree of Science in Education (1996) and a doctorate in Sociology from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (2002).

She is a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center on Adolescence from September 2012 until August 2013, with a scholarship from the Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (CAPES).

While at Stanford she will analyse data resulting from a questionnaire which in 2012 was applied to a random sample of students in Brazilian and Chinese universities. She will also examine psychological, sociological and educational theories on youth and generations and their contribution for the empirical research on university students.

Publications in English:

BOHNSACK, Ralf; PFAFF, Nicolle; WELLER, Wivian (Ed.). Qualitative Analysis and Documentary Method in International Educational Research. Opladen & Farmington Hills, MI: Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2010. Download here

WELLER, Wivian; SILVA, Catarina M. (2011). Documentary Method and Participatory Research: Some Interfaces. In: International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 7, Issue 3, 294-318.

WELLER, Wivian; TELLA, Marco Aurelio Paz (2011). Hip-Hop in São Paulo: Identity, Community Formation, and Social Action. In: Idelber Avelar; Christopher Dunn. (ed.). Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 188-203.

WELLER, Wivian (2010). The Feminin Presence in Youth (Sub)Culture. The Art of Becoming Visible. In: BOHNSACK, Ralf, PFAFF, Nicolle, WELLER, Wivian (ed.). Qualitative Analysis and Documentary Method... Opladen & Farmington Hills, MI: Barbara Budrich Publishers, 143-163.

BOHNSACK, Ralf, PFAFF, Nicolle, WELLER, Wivian (2010). Reconstructive Research and Documentary Method in Brazilian and German Educational Science - An Introduction. In: BOHNSACK, Ralf, PFAFF, Nicolle, WELLER, Wivian (ed.).

People Affiliation: 

Universidade de Brasilia