A educação popular em uma experiência orientada pela extensão universitária no espaço institucional e sua influência na formação do pedagogo

Abstract

This work is about presenting and discussing popular education through the student experience in the Coordination of Popular Education of the Pró-Rectory of Extension of the Federal University of Paraíba. Data production was developed during extension activities in the field of living practices. The methodological tools used were documentary research, reports and informative texts, using the methodological approach of Critical Discourse Studies. The Popular Education was the guiding thread of this theoretical-methodological process that was systematized in Brazil by Paulo Freire. This one, had as its objective the construction of the emancipatory knowledge, in which the subject is the protagonist of its process of historical identity considering its social reality. The result analyzed and discussed is the importance of university extension in popular education, as a possibility of experience and construction for a new pedagogical view. This work contributes to guide educational practices that instigate the overcoming of the disadvantages and vulnerabilities that are submitted to socially subordinate subjects. Thus, the study brings to the debate the importance of popular education in an experience of university extension and its contribution to the education of the pedagogue.