Educação popular e incidência política: uma experiência do Movimento de Adolescentes e Crianças – MAC, Guarabira/PB

Abstract

The present work has as its theme of investigation popular educational practices in the context of social movements. Its general objective is to analyze the popular educational actions developed by the Movement of Adolescents and Children-MAC, to identify its contribution to political incidence within the scope of public policies for children and adolescents in the municipality of Guarabira. They have as specific objectives to identify the spaces of action for the political incidence of the movement (MAC); to analyze the methodologies of the training processes that involve the children and adolescents participating in the MAC and to evaluate the results of the MAC actions within the scope of public policies for children and adolescents. The theoretical framework was built taking as a reference authors from the field of popular education, with emphasis on the thinker and educator Paulo Freire. The investigation has a descriptive and qualitative character, carried out through documentary research and observation of educational actions. The documental research was based on activity reports with a record of political and educational actions developed by MAC, complemented by observation data and bibliographic research. As a result of the process of investigation and systematization of the experience, we highlight the citizenship training of children and adolescents, guaranteeing them learning processes for the exercise of social and political participation, an important aspect for the political incidence actions developed by the movement in the local public sphere.