O Cidadão nas Políticas Públicas: Realidade ou Utopia?

The article if considers to identify in the fields of the public sphere, the public politics and the theory of the complexity elements that take the public politics to reconsider the citizen as principal actor of the public sphere, verifying evidences of its use in strategical lines of the cities. By means of research qualitative and exploratória concludes that, in the majority of the experiences of public politics analyzed the citizen, when is taken in consideration, it occupies secondary positions. Of the theoretical point of view, this if must to the fact predominate in the processes of elaboration of the public politics, linear, instrumental and exculpatory rationalities, in detriment of nonlinear and opened rationalities to the yearnings of the citizens.

Museu de arte popular : memórias de poder

Tendo como pano de fundo o Museu de Arte Popular, o presente trabalho procura compreender a decisão política que determinou o seu encerramento em 2008, enquadrando-a no período histórico vivido pela sociedade portuguesa desde o ano de 1948, data em que foi inaugurado, até aos nossos dias. É traçado o registo biográfico do Museu, assim como a matriz institucional que a ele preside, pretendendo-se, com o auxílio de informação produzida em várias áreas científicas complementares da museologia e presente em fontes documentais de arquivo, estabelecer uma descrição dos seus principais aspectos caracterizantes – onde se inclui a descrição do percurso institucional, do espaço expositivo, acervo, – bem como das relações funcionais verificadas entre o Museu e as diferentes tutelas dos períodos do Estado Novo e da Democracia. (Dissertação Mestrado Museologia Departamento de Museologia ULHT)

Fifty Years After Angicos : Paulo Freire, Popular Education and the Struggle for a Better World that is Possible

The main thesis of this paper is that Freire’s original experience in Angicos anticipated a grand design for social transformation of educational systems. As such it brought together two key concepts that formulated the basis of his educational system: popular culture as an counter-hegemonic project and popular education, more particularly what was later called citizen schools or public popular education as keystone of his new educational system. I use the term Paulo Freire System to show that his original attempts were not only to challenge pedagogical the prevailing banking education system that was so pervasive in Brazil and Latin American at the time. In challenging the hegemony of banking education, its narrative, theoretical foundations, epistemology and methodology, Freire and his team sought to create a new system that could replace the old one. They saw banking education not only as obsolete in terms of modernization of systems but also oppressive in gnoseological, epistemological and political terms. In the conclusion of this paper I will discuss the twins obsessions of Freire, already present in the Angicos experience and that will stay with him throughout his life: the relationship between democracy, citizenship and education, and education as a postcolonial ethical act of social transformation. I would like to emphasize therefore that the Paulo Freire system, as conceived in the Angicos experience and its aftermath was a much larger and comprehensive system that originally considered, even by his critics.