Social movement or reproduction of pre-university conventional courses? A study of the Popular Course Emancipa in Marabá, State of Pará, Brazil

Um estudo do Cursinho Popular Emancipa em Marabá, Pará

Abstract

In this work, we try to analyze the characteristics of the Popular Course Emancipa in the city of Marabá, State of Pará, Brazil, and discuss this social movement by questioning the nature of its activities to find an answer to the following question: “this course is an emancipatory social movement or does it only reproduce the conventional pre-vestibular courses?” This work becomes relevant as it brings into discussion an important topic of interest of the movements that are called “popular education movements”, as it is part of the initial publications about the dynamics of the emancipation networking, popular courses movement in Marabá.
Through the bibliographic research and case study, information, interviews, discussion and data were collected so that this work could be configured, and thus be supported. The research made it possible to conclude that the Emancipa Zé Cláudio and Maria do Espírito Santo popular course not only assists students in the preparation for the university entrance exams and Enem, but also provides critical training, aiming the emancipation and organization of the struggle for the conquest of rights , in this way, in parts it reproduces the dynamics of a conventional pre-university course, but seeks (and has this as its goal and praxis), the emancipation of those involved (students and teachers) through popular education.