The Citizen School: Inclusive policies and practices

Authors

  • Jose Clovis de Azevedo Centro Universitário Metodista, do IPA
  • Carolina Contreiras Rodrigues Centro Universitário Metodista, do IPA
  • Sumaia Fuchs Curço Centro Universitário Metodista, do IPA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v18n2.2010

Keywords:

education, inclusion, exclusion, democracy, citizenship

Abstract

The experience of Porto Alegre Citizen school is discussed in this study, being analyzed how this democratic participation based project has produced advances in the educational inclusion issue. The Citizen School project is discussed in the context of conquests and advances within the Brazilian legislation. Education is discussed as a right, which analyses the contradictions of the inclusion process limited by the excludent socioeconomical system. The assumptions and the pedagogical practises which produce the schooling failure are examined by presenting a critical view towards the merit conception-based evaluation. It is discussed the need of rethinking school centering the concerns with inclusion and educators training intended to gather the “different ones” and allow dialogues with the cultural contexts. The ongoing project at the Citizen School is being analyzed as an updated pedagogical practice reference. The data examined is referred to the Municipal net and indicates a rise in enrollments, in the different modalities of attending, in evasion reduction, in failing and shows a drastic decrease of illiteracy in the city. It also testifies a continuance of an integrating, cooperative, solidary, participative and democratic pedagogical practice commited to social inclusion.

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Author Biographies

Jose Clovis de Azevedo, Centro Universitário Metodista, do IPA

Doutor em Educação pela Universidade de São Paulo, USP. Docente do Centro Universitário Metodista, do IPA – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Reabilitação e Inclusão – Mestrado Profissional.

Carolina Contreiras Rodrigues, Centro Universitário Metodista, do IPA

Pedagoga, Terapeuta Ocupacional e Mestre pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Reabilitação e Inclusão – Mestrado Profissional do Centro Universitário Metodista, do IPA.  Pesquisa as práticas pedagógicas relacionadas à hiperatividade.

Sumaia Fuchs Curço, Centro Universitário Metodista, do IPA

Pedagoga e Mestre pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Reabilitação e Inclusão – Mestrado Profissional do Centro Universitário Metodista, do IPA. Desenvolve pesquisa sobre o bulling como fator de exclusão na escola.

Published

2010-01-29

How to Cite

Azevedo, J. C. de, Rodrigues, C. C., & Curço, S. F. (2010). The Citizen School: Inclusive policies and practices. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 18, 2. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v18n2.2010

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