Escola dos sonhos: pedagogia cirandeira em oficinas de produção de brinquedos artesanais

Abstract

This paper aims to present the Cirandeira Pedagogy, developed in the workshops for the production of handmade toys, at the Escola de Ensino Fundamental Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Bananeiras, PB. This project began in 2020, understanding how the school developed its active methodology with its students. For this investigation, we adopted action research as described by Maria Amélia Santoro Franco (2005). Then, we proposed workshops for building handmade toys, following the action-reflection-action methodology. With the use of action research, we understand that the school in question is an open institution without walls, which does not separate students by years or grades, which does not fail and is willing to children's learning needs, preferably from a rural community, action mediated by dialogue. It is a place that organizes welcoming scenarios, capable of evoking joy and determination for those who teach and those who learn to face challenges in the different contexts of the realities of human life, considering the cultural constructs of the community itself. It is a differentiated place of teaching and learning. We conclude that, in fact, the pedagogical experiences of the school uphold the name by which it's called by its participants: the School of Our Dreams.