Professors Emeritus Michael Apple, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Miguel Arroyo, from the Faculty of Education at UFMG, will be together on November 26, 2025, at an event promoted by the FUNDEP Magda Soares Chair of Basic Education of IEAT/UFMG and the Union of Professors of Federal Universities of Belo Horizonte, Montes Claros and Ouro Branco (APUBHUFMG+).

Considered two leading figures in critical pedagogy worldwide, Michael Apple and Miguel Arroyo will participate in the round table “The challenges of teacher training and the struggle for democratic, inclusive and humanizing schools”. The event will take place in auditorium B101/B102 of the Didactic Activities Center 3 (CAD 3) at UFMG, starting at 2:30 pm. Places for in-person participation are sold out. The event will be broadcast on the APUBHUFMG+ YouTube channel.

During the event, Michael Apple and Miguel Arroyo will discuss the challenges and possibilities of training basic education teachers in a context of growing conservative and far-right movements worldwide. They will also seek to point out paths and strategies for training educators committed to promoting more democratic, inclusive, and humanizing schools.

The panel will be moderated by Professor Helder de Figueiredo e Paula, president of APUBHUFMG+, and will include the participation of Professor Júlio Emílio Diniz, academic coordinator of the FUNDEP Magda Soares Chair of Basic Education at IEAT/UFMG, at the opening.

About the Guests

Michael Whitman Apple – Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

The second occupant of the FUNDEP Magda Soares Chair in Basic Education at IEAT/UFMG, Michael Apple is the John Bascom Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the United States, and Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London, in England. He has worked with governments, researchers, unions, political movements, and dissident groups in Latin America and many other parts of the world, contributing to the construction of more critically democratic research, policies, and practices in education. He is the author of the following books: Educating the “Right” Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality (2006), The Subaltern Speak: Curriculum, Power, and Educational Struggles (2006), The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education (2009), and Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education (2010).

Miguel Gonzalez Arroyo – Professor Emeritus at UFMG

Miguel Arroyo is a full professor emeritus at the Faculty of Education of UFMG and holds an honorary doctorate from the Federal Fluminense University. He was the Deputy Secretary of Education for the Municipality of Belo Horizonte, coordinating and developing the implementation of the Escola Plural (Plural School) political-pedagogical proposal. Throughout his career, he has always worked on the development of educational proposals in various state and municipal school systems across the country. He has experience in the field of Education, with an emphasis on Educational Policy and Administration of Educational Systems, working mainly on the following themes: education, school culture, school management, basic education, and curriculum.