Extensão, pedagogia das encruzilhadas e a educação popular em direitos humanos: a efetivação do direito à educação através da Teoria dos Círculos concêntricos no caso da E. E. Belém Câmara

Abstract

This research intends to evaluate the possibility to rewrite the meaning of the right to education through the pedagogia das encruzilhadas and the popular education in human rights. For this, in the course of the research, it uses the hypothetical-deductive method, falsifying the main hypothesis by using the principles and tools of action research and, also, the techniques of indirect documentation (bibliographic and documentary research). Thus, firstly, it identifies the concepts of the founding categories of the investigation, namely: law and education. From there, it crosses the theories of the different methodological theoretical frameworks that study these categories. It understands, in this way, that the right to education does not exist beyond the abyssal lines, that is, it doesn't exist in certain areas where individuals are constantly produced as non-existents and silenced. It proposes, through the Extension Project Efetivando o Direito à Educação (action-research) and the actions carried out with the Belém Câmara State School (Natal/RN), the possibility of overcoming this deficit, through popular education in human rights, based on the “Pedagogia das Encruzilhadas” and the ecology of knowledge. The main result is the partial success of the methodological structuring of an extension based on popular education in human rights staggered in three levels, aimed at the classroom, the school and the community - here called the Concentric Circles Theory.