From returning to school to accessing and attending University: The PAIETS as Possibility of Social Transformation

Abstract

DOI: 10.12957/interag.2016.15923

This paper presents the experiences of the Aid Program to Join the Technical and Superior Education (PAIETS) at the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), in the campaign for the recovery of basic education, access and attendance of the popular classes in state and quality in higher education, in addition to the pursuit of permanent learning from the point of view of popular education. Therefore, the PAIETS actions materialize through popular pre-university courses, located in the popular neighborhoods of Rio Grande - RS, São José do Norte - RS, Capão do Leão - RS, and Santo Antônio da Patrulha - RS; from the PAIETS Natives and Quilombola subprogram; the recovery of traditional communities of Basic Education, in the Education for Fishermen project, and Sul-Rio-Grande Looks project for the training of Adult and Young students. In this sense, the practices developed in the contexts of activity of PAIETS aim at enhancing educational activities that reckon Popular Education as a political choice, since we understand that educational practice is one way to fight for human emancipation. The guiding principles of the program practices are committed to critical and political training – the possibility of 'being more'. Therefore, the four work fronts of PAIETS assume the goal of collective emancipation, holding higher education as a right and a possibility for the popular classes.