Experience in the field of popular education

the project of the Cooperative Network of Teaching, Research and Extension in Basic Education Schools

Abstract

This text presents an experience report that describes the initial process of a network research. It is carried out from a collective construction of the project of the Cooperative Network of Teaching, Research, and Extension (RECEPE, in Portuguese abbreviation) in Basic Education schools, founded under the Postgraduate Program in Education: teacher training for basic education – Professional Master’s Degree; and developed by the reflections of the research group in Teacher Training, Right to Learn and Pedagogical Practices (FORDAPP). Accordingly, it describes how the technical-pedagogical meetings that anchor the network have been characterized, the constructions, and the learning that occurs as the network is based and expanded in this context. The work cites some initial activities that linked basic education schools and the university, in addition to conducting conversation circles focused on research and extension, aiming to improve the social quality of education with theoretical-methodological assumptions based on principles of popular education. In the end, as a result, it demonstrates how the studies about popular education and the involvement in the constitution of RECEPE contributed to the re-signification of this newcomer researcher’s look on the development of her research object.