Improvement of Older Women's Sexuality Through Emancipatory Education

The purpose of this action research (AR) was to explore the ways in which sexuality is experienced daily and to improve the expression of older women's sexuality. The pedagogy of autonomy as proposed by the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire theoretically supported this AR, with the participation of six older adult women living in a rural setting in southwest Brazil. The older women's experiences regarding sexuality, their concerns, and their educational demands could be summarized through five phrases: the improvement of self-esteem as a way to promote sexuality; sexuality impaired by loneliness and lack of affection; men's sexual satisfaction seen as a woman's obligation; women's sexuality controlled by the society; and relinquishment of the companion to attend to the expectations of family members. Dialogical and participative educational approaches and continuous observation-participation strategies were performed to support the women's care and educational requirements.

A Educação de Jovens e Adultos nos contextos de escolarização e as possibilidades de práticas educativas emancipatórias

A presente pesquisa discute a importância da Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) nos contextos de escolarização buscando, a partir dos Estudos do Cotidiano, compreender os significados que lhes são atribuídos e os aspectos que se apresentam como perspectivas de educação emancipatória. Parte do pressuposto de que professores e alunos tecem, nos cotidianos da EJA, saberesfazeres, especialmente em seus currículos, invisibilizados e silenciados, práticas educativas emancipatórias para além das forças reguladoras das normas (OLIVEIRA, 2003). A construção da análise incorpora observações do cotidiano escolar e entrevistas com professores e alunos de EJA do Ensino Médio da Escola de Ensino Fundamental e Médio Sólon de Lucena, situada em Campina Grande/PB. O desenvolvimento da discussão considera o debate sobre o uso do termo emancipação social à luz dos postulados de Paulo Freire e Boaventura Santos. A abordagem sobre a reconfiguração e ampliação das práticas de educação de jovens e adultos ancora-se nas contribuições de Paiva (1997, 2005, 2009), Haddad (2000, 2007), Di Pierro (2005, 2010), Arroyo (2005), Fávero (2004, 2007). Os estudos sobre cultura contemplados produzem interfaces e conexões com o currículo, especialmente os currículos praticados, a partir dos trabalhos de Giroux (2009), Moreira (2002), Candau (2011), Oliveira (2003, 2009, 2010), entre outros. A tese defende que a educação dialógica, problematizada por Freire, e a valorização de experiências diferenciadas propiciadoras de diálogos e conflitos para a superação da monocultura do saber, proposta por Santos, estão presentes, implicitamente, nas práticas dos professores, na medida em que desenvolvem ações de ruptura com a lógica de submissão da educação bancária, privilegiando a ampliação do diálogo, da comunicação e da emancipação social.

A pedagogia das competências como política curricular do ensino médio na rede pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro: a hegemonia da formação flexível?

A presente dissertação busca realizar uma reflexão sobre a hegemonia da pedagogia das competências como noção orientadora da proposta curricular do ensino médio na rede estadual de educação do Rio de Janeiro. Para alcançar tal objetivo buscamos verificar,através de analises de documentos oficiais, referenciais teóricos e da observação da estruturação do sistema educacional fluminense, o quanto se tem promovido a formação flexível como padrão a ser desenvolvido entre os discentes da rede. Buscou-se analisar, em um primeiro momento, a configuração do Estado capitalista, suas características principais e as mudanças referentes ao neoliberalismo. Procurou-se, em seguida, realizar uma reflexão acerca da cultura e da práxis profissional dos docentes, buscando elencar a construção de ações profissionais permeadas por princípios do capitalismo. Realizamos também uma aproximação ao conhecimento acerca do currículo, sua organização histórica e representatividade na atividade docente. Como última etapa do trabalho, buscamos realizar uma análise da proposta curricular do estado do Rio de Janeiro, indicando a centralidade que a pedagogia das competências assume no documento oficial. Analisamos, ainda, o plano de metas da SEEDUC-RJ, identificando algumas características do plano e sua articulação com a lógica da formação flexível. Por fim, realizamos, ainda, entrevistas com alguns docentes, visando a atestar fragilidades e inconsistências do currículo mínimo e da lógica formativa. Ao final, foi possível constatar como o modelo neoliberal tem espalhado suas orientações por todo o estado fluminense. Ainda explicitamos o alinhamento entre as noções globais e a materialização dessas noções no ensino local, mostrando a pedagogia das competências como dimensão formativa atrelada aos anseios de um saber fazer distante da formação emancipatória do homem.

Microcrédito emancipatório no nordeste do Brasil? : estudo de caso do Crediamigo Comunidade nos municípios de Caucaia-Ce e Maranguape-Ce

This piece of work consists in a study case of Crediamigo Comunidade, a product from the portfolio of Crediamigo Program of Banco do Nordeste, that uses the methodology of the Comunitary Banks in the concession of low amount loan to poor communities. The main question consists to understand how the Crediamigo Comunidade is characterized faced to the conflict of emancipatory versus liberal paradigms, that exists in the microcredit area. The main objective will analyze how the mechanisms: social capital, empowerment, formation to credit education and better conditions for economic and social issues promoted in the specific objectives of this product, before the dipute between these paradigms. The method adopted analyzed, in a longitudinal perspective, the three years of the product s existence (jun/2005 to jul 2008). Primary and secondary data made possible to identify qualitatively, emancipatory and non emancipatory attributes in the actions and results of Crediamigo Comunidade. It is concluded that the Crediamigo Comunidade works in a liberal logic of the Crediamigo Program, consequently, his focus is not in the emancipation of the poorest clients. The empowerment is individual and not communitary or Freiriano ; the social capital relations enlarges itself in its bounding and bridging ties, but not in its linkage ties, to have access to politic actors and consequently communitary strengthen. All the formation in the Crediamigo is strictly commercial. These characteristics happen by the liberal paradigm in the Crediamigo management and of all of its products, including the Crediamigo Comunidade

As novas tecnologias e os limites da formação: uma abordagem a partir da Teoria Crítica

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Fundamentos teóricos do método de resolução de problemas ampliados

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Projetos: Alternativas viáveis na Educação Ambiental?

Neste artigo empreenderemos uma reflexão a respeito de projetos, sua gênese, sua utilização na educação e na educação ambiental. Empreenderemos uma discussão sobre os denominados “método de projetos” e a “pedagogia de projetos”, estabelecendo uma comparação entre ambos e delineando uma perspectiva que consideramos mais adequada à EA. Os limites e as possibilidades dos projetos são também objeto de nossa reflexão dentro uma perspectiva crítica, transformadora e emancipatória de educação ambiental.

O ensino de filosofia na proposta curricular do Estado de São Paulo: espaço para experiências formativas?

Pós-graduação em Educação Escolar - FCLAR

O preconceito como obstáculo à educação sexual: reflexões a partir de uma perspectiva ética

This paper developed a reflection about problems related to the establishment of ethical principles that guide the sexual education aiming at emancipation. Our theoretical framework is the Critical Theory of Society, in particular texts by T. W. Adorno on training, prejudice and education. It is understood that numerous difficulties are related to the achievement of an emancipatory education, and such difficulties are even greater when it comes to sex education since it is an issue that still raises irrational fears on educators, and is absent from the training they received. Following Adorno, it is understood that the current formation favors the development of subjects inclined to prejudice, and that an emancipatory sexual education involves a critique to the conditions under which such formation occurs and, at the same time, a continuous reflection about the relations between the desires and the social possibilities of their realization.

Microcrédito emancipatório no nordeste do Brasil? : estudo de caso do Crediamigo Comunidade nos municípios de Caucaia-Ce e Maranguape-Ce

This piece of work consists in a study case of Crediamigo Comunidade, a product from the portfolio of Crediamigo Program of Banco do Nordeste, that uses the methodology of the Comunitary Banks in the concession of low amount loan to poor communities. The main question consists to understand how the Crediamigo Comunidade is characterized faced to the conflict of emancipatory versus liberal paradigms, that exists in the microcredit area. The main objective will analyze how the mechanisms: social capital, empowerment, formation to credit education and better conditions for economic and social issues promoted in the specific objectives of this product, before the dipute between these paradigms. The method adopted analyzed, in a longitudinal perspective, the three years of the product s existence (jun/2005 to jul 2008). Primary and secondary data made possible to identify qualitatively, emancipatory and non emancipatory attributes in the actions and results of Crediamigo Comunidade. It is concluded that the Crediamigo Comunidade works in a liberal logic of the Crediamigo Program, consequently, his focus is not in the emancipation of the poorest clients. The empowerment is individual and not communitary or Freiriano ; the social capital relations enlarges itself in its bounding and bridging ties, but not in its linkage ties, to have access to politic actors and consequently communitary strengthen. All the formation in the Crediamigo is strictly commercial. These characteristics happen by the liberal paradigm in the Crediamigo management and of all of its products, including the Crediamigo Comunidade

Microcrédito emancipatório no nordeste do Brasil? : estudo de caso do Crediamigo Comunidade nos municípios de Caucaia-Ce e Maranguape-Ce

This piece of work consists in a study case of Crediamigo Comunidade, a product from the portfolio of Crediamigo Program of Banco do Nordeste, that uses the methodology of the Comunitary Banks in the concession of low amount loan to poor communities. The main question consists to understand how the Crediamigo Comunidade is characterized faced to the conflict of emancipatory versus liberal paradigms, that exists in the microcredit area. The main objective will analyze how the mechanisms: social capital, empowerment, formation to credit education and better conditions for economic and social issues promoted in the specific objectives of this product, before the dipute between these paradigms. The method adopted analyzed, in a longitudinal perspective, the three years of the product s existence (jun/2005 to jul 2008). Primary and secondary data made possible to identify qualitatively, emancipatory and non emancipatory attributes in the actions and results of Crediamigo Comunidade. It is concluded that the Crediamigo Comunidade works in a liberal logic of the Crediamigo Program, consequently, his focus is not in the emancipation of the poorest clients. The empowerment is individual and not communitary or Freiriano ; the social capital relations enlarges itself in its bounding and bridging ties, but not in its linkage ties, to have access to politic actors and consequently communitary strengthen. All the formation in the Crediamigo is strictly commercial. These characteristics happen by the liberal paradigm in the Crediamigo management and of all of its products, including the Crediamigo Comunidade

Successful outcomes in vocational education and training courses : how pedagogy and expectations influence achievement

This paper reports on a four year Australian Research Council funded Linkage Project titled Skilling Indigenous Queensland, conducted in regional areas of Queensland, Australia from 2009 to 2013. The project sought to investigate vocational education, training (VET) and teaching, Indigenous learners’ needs, employer cultural and expectations and community culture and expectations to identify best practice in numeracy teaching for Indigenous VET learners. Specifically it focused on ways to enhance the teaching and learning of courses and the associated mathematics in such courses to benefit learners and increase their future opportunities of employment. To date thirty-nine teachers/trainers/teacher aides and two hundred and thirty-one students consented to participate in the project. Nine VET courses were nominated to be the focus on the study. This paper focuses on questionnaire and interview responses from four trainers, two teacher aides and six students. In recent years a considerable amount of funding has been allocated to increasing Indigenous Peoples’ participation in education and employment. This increased funding is predicated on the assumption that it will make a difference and contribute to closing the education gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians (Council of Australia Governments, 2009). The central tenet is that access to education for Indigenous People will create substantial social and economic benefits for regional and remote Indigenous People. The project’s aim is to address some of the issues associated with the gap. To achieve the aims, the project adopted a mixed methods design aimed at benefitting research participants and included: participatory collaborative action research (Kemmis & McTaggart, 1988) and, community research (Smith, 1999). Participatory collaborative action research refers to a is a “collective, self-reflective enquiry undertaken by participants in social situations in order to improve the rationality and justice of their own social and educational practices” (Kemmis et al., 1988, p. 5). Community research is described as an approach that “conveys a much more intimate, human and self-defined space” (p. 127). Community research relies on and validates the community’s own definitions. As the project is informed by the social at a community level, it is described as “community action research or emancipatory research” (Smith, 1999, p. 127). It seeks to demonstrate benefit to the community, making positive differences in the lives of Indigenous People and communities. The data collection techniques included survey questionnaires, video recording of teaching and learning processes, teacher reflective video analysis of teaching, observations, semi-structured interviews and student numeracy testing. As a result of these processes, the findings indicate that VET course teachers work hard to adopt contextualising strategies to their teaching, however this process is not always straight forward because of the perceptions of how mathematics has been taught and learned historically. Further teachers, trainers and students have high expectations of one another with the view to successful outcomes from the courses.

(Un)veiling desire: re-defining relationships between gendered adult education subjects and adult education programmes

My underlying argument, in this paper, is that conceptualisations of power as a commodity, through which the 'disempowered-as-illiterate' subject moves towards becoming an 'empowered-as-literate' subject, forces constructs of identities into a powerful/powerless dichotomy which does not always do justice to diverse experiences. The claimed 'empowering' intentions of adult education programme and policy practice may, in reality, contribute to the dominance of restrictive disciplining and regulatory discursive practices. Moving away from emancipatory trajectories of adult education programmes that allege only liberation from domination, through 'literacy', can promise freedom points to another position of hope. Drawing on Foucauldian analysis, I explore sites of resistance as possibilities of transforming 'structures of understanding' at different levels. Officially validated and recognised transformations, in adult education programme as well as policy understandings, of the 'illiterate' subject may also hope to include choices in postures of autonomy (see Spivak 1996) made by programme participants in other 'fields' of socio-cultural practice linked to their material realities. Subsequently, 'empowerment' of the 'illiterate Indian village woman' cannot solely be imagined as a product of laws, policies and institutional discursive practices (see, for example, Gouws 2005; Rai 2003 on gender mainstreaming and Mosse 2005 on aid policy and practice). The 'illiterate Indian village woman' represented as a site of resistance, throughout this paper, displaces homogeneous representations of the 'illiterate' which situate her in the role of 'dependent' or 'victim', as failed attempts to rob her of her historical and political agency (Mohanty 1996). Through narrating other 'images' of refusal in my ethnographic vignettes, I hope to recognise different individuals' sense of agency, at all levels, as embedded in and evolving through forms of collective action that activate differences in order to develop possibilities and sustain hope for transforming historically rooted discursive practices of inequality. I provide ethnographic accounts of resisting 'literacy' programme participants, based in different villages in Bihar (Northern India), as accounts of resistance impacted on by notions of norms, translating and interpreting Others, networks and empowerment.