Guidelines for strategic national planning of training and education for museums, cultural heritage and related fields in Sweden and in international co-operation

The guidelines presented in this document are a preliminary strategy for establishing a comprehensive policy for the needs of training and education wiyhin the sector and adjoining areas, across fields of knowledge and professions concerned, on relevant levels and for the varies institutions and operators. The objective of these guidelines is to analysis the problems, objectives and goals for development of a far reaching system of educational and training programs and courses for museums, cultural heritage and related fields of activities. This objective comprises a close collaboration between museum, cultural heritage organizations and educating organizations, notably within universities and colleges, but also other kinds of educating bodies.

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.

Preconceitos étnico-raciais apresentados por alunos dos cursos integrados do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia : perspectivas de mudanças

Questões relacionadas à discriminação racial e educação tem sido objeto de um número crescente de publicações e estudos, favorecendo a abertura de espaços para discussões e busca de alternativas para minimizar o preconceito étnico-racial nas escolas. Desse modo, partindo-se da convicção de que o preconceito, usualmente incorporado e acreditado, é a mola central e o reprodutor mais eficaz da discriminação e de exclusão, o presente estudo teve como principal objetivo investigar junto aos alunos dos cursos integrados do IFS – Campus Aracaju- a atribuição de algumas características positivas ou negativas a pessoas com base nos estereótipos raciais, a fim de se orientar práticas pedagógicas docentes na superação de preconceitos e construção de valores. Utilizouse, neste trabalho, a abordagem de pesquisa de natureza qualitativa e quantitativa, com orientação bibliográfica, tendo o questionário como instrumento para coleta e análise de dados. Participaram da pesquisa 205 alunos, dos quais 85 (41,46%) são do sexo feminino, com idade variando entre 14 e 19 anos (Média= 16,04), e 120 (58,54%) do sexo masculino, estes apresentando idades situadas entre 14 e 21 anos (Média= 16,26), discentes dos Cursos Técnicos em Química, Eletrotécnica, Edificação, Informática e Eletrônica. Os resultados apontam que, na vivência do ambiente escolar, podem ser percebidos os mesmos preconceitos que prevalecem na sociedade, de onde se conclui que é necessária a adoção de novos métodos didáticos e práticas docentes que contemplem, com efetividade, esta problemática, de modo a fomentar a construção de uma sociedade menos desigual.