Space of creation: an educational alternative for students in situation of social and educational exclusion in the city of São Paulo

• Grant number: 05/02563-6
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: December 01, 2005
• End date: November 30, 2007
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Educational Teaching and Learning
• Principal Investigator: Nilce da Silva
• Grantee: Nilce da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Educação (FE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project are inserted in the thematic of the learning of the reading and the writing in the first years of the first years of school in the poor regions in the city of São Paulo; localization where one meets afro-descendant population, migrant of northeast region of Brazil. The main objective of this project consists of the implantation and coordination of "spaces of creation" in, at least, 3 public schools of the periphery of the city of São Paulo. In these "spaces", the pupils - in low schoolaritazion in Portuguese language - will be able, with theirs abilities and through the incentive of the use of theirs creative and resilience capacities - to give another meaning for their relation with the school and more specifically with the learning of the Portuguese language and to acquire instruments that facilitate their insertion in the paulista society. The methodology of research will be the research-intervention in the measure where the "spaces of creation" are considered spaces, par excellence, appropriate to the scientific inquiry and, space still pedagogical properly said. It is intended to describe the process of inquiry densely restored for this research and still to divulge it in scientific journals, participating of scientific congresses and same organizing academic events that they look to display the results reached and to submit them in the debate. (AU)