COUNTER-HEGEMONY AS CONSIDERED BY PRAXIS - COLETIVO DE EDUCAÇÃO POPULAR

Abstract

This article is the result of a research that aimed to understand the movement through which the Praxis Coletivo de Educação Popular (from Santa Maria (RS)) (re)affirms, in its performance, the popular character of the project. Besides a literature review, document analysis and semi-structured interviews were carried out with the educators, as well as with one of the coordinators of the project, in order to understand both the perceptions of the members of Praxis about popular education and the objectives of the project, as well as the strategies mobilized by the educators in this process, such as the insertion, in the sub-projects of a social nature, of paradidactic activities, interdisciplinary "aulões" (classes) and internal formative spaces. It was possible to observe that these strategies involve both the denaturalization of elements that are typical of bourgeois sociability and traditional education together with educators and students and the projection of Praxis beyond the walls of the university, inserting itself in the mobilizations and social struggles and bringing a popular perspective to its insertion projects. It was concluded that, through these movements, Praxis constitutes an important agent of democratization of culture and education in Santa Maria (RS), both through the ENEM preparatory classes and projects and activities in which it is inserted, as well as in a political agent, included in local social mobilizations, forming educators committed to an education that is able to help the subjects of the popular classes in their emancipation and humanization.