Curta VK e Casa de Aya: tramas entre educação popular e cultura na Vila Kennedy

Abstract

Popular education is an area of education whose practices allow the acquisition of knowledge through the interweaving of individuals with knowledge that, when contextualized, decode meanings, disseminate concepts and adapts it to communicate to transcribe facts, experiences and concerns; enabling consecutively dynamic dialogue between individuals and their environment. To better understand its definition, this objective is to work in talk about two experiences of popular education in Vila Kennedy aiming to show how popular movements influence their context and therefore it is extremely important to consider them in all areas education: form or informal, for example. One of the initiatives of these is the Short VK, community film festival that annually takes place in the locality; the other is the Aya House, cultural space for the exchange of popular knowledge, which values the potential of individuals with a desire to do what the residents can participate autonomously in the construction of learning, and can also reconfigure the scenario that popular community as marginalized socially. Thus, the objective of this work is to, in addition to presenting them, valuing them at their potential, show how the formal teaching spaces, such as public schools in the region should consider them in the construction of knowledge and meaning social that creates mutually in society.