Border, education, and research:

a survey of academic productions from 2013 to 2023

Abstract

Abstract: Border regions in which formal and informal environments are culturally diverse provide fertile ground for research in Language Studies and the Human Sciences and make it possible to discuss and expand investigations into the linguistic and educational reality that exists in these plural contexts. In this way, bibliographic reviews become necessary ways to compose inventories of academic productions aimed at understanding the subject in focus. Our aim in this article is initially to present a survey of doctoral studies that approach the subject of education in Brazilian border contexts, with the aim of identifying which issues have been addressed in academic productions, and what challenges and contributions emerge from and for these border contexts. In addition, we mapped which of these studies articulate linguistic issues and phenomena that occur in elementary school contexts. The method used was bibliographical research and we systematically reviewed the literature on the proposed topic. We used the Capes portal (Theses and Dissertations) as our database and only focused on those research theses produced in the last decade (from 2014 to 2023). As a result, we obtained a significant overview of the various educational and linguistic realities experienced in different border contexts and which encourage future research.