Abstract

SANTOS, Graziella Souza dos; MOREIRA, Simone Costa  and  GANDIN, Luís Armando. PORTO ALEGRE MUNICIPAL EDUCATION DISTRICT: RESISTANCE AND STRUGGLES FOR SOCIAL AND CURRICULAR JUSTICE. e-Curriculum [online]. 2020, vol.18, n.2, pp.866-888.  Epub Oct 15, 2020. ISSN 1809-3876.  https://doi.org/10.23925/1809-3876.2020v18i2p866-888.

This paper presents the educational experience of the Porto Alegre Municipal Education District (RMEPOA) and the challenges of keeping alive the legacy of a counter-hegemonic project in times of policies of the New Right. Data come from three research projects, some of which using ethnography, which, over the course of a decade, have been conducted in the district schools. We demonstrate that the initiatives built within this district are connected to the struggles for social justice and curricular justice, concepts that we present and analyze in the paper. The analysis of the data show that over time RMEPOA has undergone profound changes, particularly with the introduction of policies that partially deconstructed the complex structure of the Citizen School project, a democratization initiative lived in the RMEPOA between 1989 and 2004. We conclude showing that the memory of this experience and the creative capability of the schools provide examples of struggles and potent resistance inside the schools.

Keywords : Social justice; Curricular justice; Porto Alegre Municipal Education District; Citizen School..

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