Abeje Dayo: um ensaio epistemológico-político sobre a democracia na escola pública estadual

Abstract

The present research deals with Democracy in the public school in Rio de Janeiro. Within a vast subject, prioritizes experiences of political participation and state control by the citizen in the school environment and especially cognitive democracy in the classroom. This thesis is the resulted of participant observation in different public schools where the author taught. In these spaces where the actions of teacher and researcher coexisted, collected cases from significant experiences related to Democracy or authoritarianism by its denial, within the two cuts above. Here are four of these cases. Among them, the most notably, is an experience with the use of artistic languages indeed their results in the democratization of knowledge construction in the classroom. Influenced by the strength of this case and realizing the potential arose in the research and theoretical reflections about it, the author decides to make a exploratory experience with the language. He tried an alternative writing replacing the formal and current standards of scientific writing. With a impetus clearly essayistic the work is developed as a dialogue between teachers of public school who are also researchers in university. The intended was become these dialogues in a play, inside drama stile. To approach this subject and build the work`s basis, the research is mainly structured around five authors: Inês Barbosa de Oliveira for a methodology in the school routine field; Marilena Chauí for studies of Brazilian political culture and Paulo Freire, Augusto Boal and Boaventura de Sousa Santos for studies of democracy e epistemology.