Mediações e práticas culturais em uma escola de educação integral, o Ciep Avenida dos Desfiles/Passarela do Samba

Abstract

This work is the fruit of some years of experience and reflections on the approximation between school institution and community organization. To develop it, we observe the Cultural Action program implemented in the Integrated Centers of Public Education of the State of Rio de Janeiro, in the first government of Leonel Brizola. In our case, in the CIEP Avenue of the Catwalks in the neighborhood of Catumbi and its surroundings, from 1984 to 1987. In the research agenda of contemporary political and educational theory, we must include studies of culture in Gramsci, some Marxisms and on the theories of the role of the State, of educational policy and of class action, carried out by this cultural tradition. The concept of cultural mediation, coming from the ideas of Gramsci, becomes fundamental so that the development of the thesis project is driven by the tensions between theory and practice as proposed by the Italian thinker. What makes us seek in research as a possibility is the possible interaction between the world of culture and education, for the transformation of this world into another more solidary. Based on our initial inferences, we take into account the political, economic and cultural dimensions of daily occurrences reported by CIEP professionals, intellectuals, community leaders and cultural animators, seeking to make them explicit in these dimensions and in their relations with the existing historical moment in Brazil and in Rio de Janeiro