A aprendizagem matemática em uma posição de fronteira: Foregrounds e intencionalidade de estudantes de uma favela brasileira

In a large metropolis, students from different neighbourhoods can experience very different life opportunities. This can influence their attitude towards schooling and learning, including the learning of mathematics. We interviewed a group of six students from a favela in a large city in the interior of the state of São Paulo in Brazil. We invited the students to look into their future and explore whether or not there could be learning motives that linked mathematics in school to possible out-of-school practices, either in terms of possible future jobs or further studies. We identified some themes in the students' descriptions of their experiences. The first theme is discrimination. The students feel discriminated against due to the fact that they come from a poor neighbourhood. They fear being trapped in some stereotypes. The second theme is escape. There is a strong motivation to begin a new life away from the favela. A third theme concerns the obscurity of mathematics. It seems clear to everybody that education is relevant to ensure a change in life. However, the mathematics lessons do not provide any clues regarding how mathematics might function is this respect. The fourth theme is uncertainty with respect to the future. The students could easily formulate almost unattainable aspirations, while reality might impose some very heavy limitations. In this article we introduce a theoretical framework for discussing the relation between favela students' life conditions in relation to their educational experiences and opportunities. Students' intentions for learning are related to their foregrounds, that is, how they perceive their future possibilities, as made evident to them by their social environment. Students in a favela could experience what we call a borderland position, a relational space where individuals meet their social environment and come to terms with the multiple choices that cultural and economic diversity make available to them.

Um Modelo de Inovação Bottom Up: Museu de Favela

This article aims to present, describe and discuss the innovation model of the first territorial open-air museum, designed in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, the Favela Museum (MUF). The concepts of slums, traditional museum and ecomuseums differentials are introduced in order to contextualize the universe MUF is inserted. Moreover, the paper discusses the concept of territorial open-air museum collection and how curatorship takes place this context, as well as the possible forms of interaction with the diversity of individuals served by a museum such as MUF. Furthermore, the role of this new museum typology in society is discussed, entities created by bottom up innovation initiative undertaken by MUF into the new museology of action. It concludes with considerations about the shift of focus on the role played by MUF as agent of social and cultural development.

Uma estratégia de relacionamento da favela com a cidade para a integração social, física e simbólica

This paper presents the principles of a strategy for the integration of slums in the city. From an extensive literature search, it analyzes the environment of the slums, the culture of peace as a future desirable situation and the fundamental value of popular participation. It proposes a strategy based on the theories and practice of the communitarian public relations. It realizes that this is a long process and requires the complicity of various social actors, in particular the State through a manager committee of communal integration, which managements the integration of actions

Um brinde pra mim: rivalidade e concepção de talento dos hip-hoppers de Marília

Pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais - FFC

A construção narrativa em Cidade de Deus de Paulo Lins

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Rádio Comunitária de Heliópolis: reivindicações e luta por regularização e atuação oficial

Pós-graduação em História - FCLAS

As meninas e os meninos fruindo e fluindo por pensamentos, sonhos e sentimentos

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Classificação de áreas de favelas a partir de imagens ikonos: viabilidade de uso de uma abordagem orientada a objetos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Da questão do trabalho fora do mundo do trabalho: canavieiros e a experiência social do sofrimento

Pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais - FFC

Vozes periféricas: expansão, imersão e diálogo na obra dos Racionais MC's

This paper presents a reflection on the work of the rap group from São Paulo Racionais MC's, highlighting points of dialogue between his last two studio albums: Sobrevivendo no inferno, 1997, and Nada como um dia após o outro, 2002. We found, in this discursive course, the presence of voices which intertwine and indicate a collectivized speech, seeking the identification between the slums and the group's rhetoric, but they also point out to an immersion into the subjectivity, to the problematization of the discourse itself, acting as a form of debugging of the social experience in the favela. We argue further that Sobrevivendo no inferno represents a turning point in the thinking of the quartet. Thus, themes and perspectives present, although embryonically, in the first focused album, point to dramas that take shape in the second one.

Literatura brasileira contemporânea e mercado editorial: um estudo do romance “Inferno”, de Patrícia Melo

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Ponciá Vicêncio e Becos da memória de Conceição Evaristo: construindo histórias por meio de retalhos de memória

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Uma análise da tradução de vocábulos relacionados à violência e criminalidade presentes em três obras de Patrícia Melo

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Vivendo nos interstícios do Cerrado: encurralados entre o agronegócio e Unidades de Conservação

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)