Educação não-formal e transformação social: projeto Campus das Artes e sua influência na vida de adolescentes do Centro Cultural Vila Prudente da cidade de São Paulo

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Antonio Marcos da
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/24953
• topic: conscientização; favela; Paulo Freire; transformação; juventude; consciousness-raising; favela; Paulo Freire; transformation; youth; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO::TOPICOS ESPECIFICOS DE EDUCACAO::EDUCACAO EM PERIFERIAS URBANAS

The objective of this research was to analyse the project of my authorship, Campus das Artes (Arts Campus): the favela (Brazilian slums) as an anthropological art space, established in 2002 at the Vila Prudente Cultural Center, at the east zone of São Paulo, at the Vila Prudente favela. The project proposed to a group of twenty young people, both men and women, a new look over the aesthetic of the favela through visual arts, aiming to contribute to the changing process in their lives and the community. For so, six young people that attended the Arts Campus and the changes occurred in their lives were considered the subjects of this study. The project analysis was inserted in the context of an interdisciplinary research, taking into consideration the theoretical basis of the epistemological knowledge built by the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire. It was used the participant observation qualitative methodology. The results showed that the most part of the young people interviewed considered that the project opened opportunities for their insertion in the reality where they live, for many were able not only to act, but also to comprehend the exclusion mechanisms they are subjected to and how to stop being Seres Menos (Lesser Beings) to become Seres Mais (Better Beings). It was concluded through this that the young people comprehended the favela not as a place for condemnation, but as a place of possibilities of transformation without jeopardizing their lives and histories. The present study highlighted not only the need to value always more the informal education, in the face of the existing realities of needy regions, but also the importance of the employment of art in the promotion of the human development.