University community projects: the meeting place between education and diversity

Abstract

DOI: 10.12957/interag.2015.15508

The Community Project and space "Culture Wheels" was born due to the Cultural Scientific Exchange between the Università degli Studi di Verona/Italy, the State University of Piauí - UESPI and the Federal University of Piauí - UFPI. It is a space for producing knowledge and practice that arise in the relationship between the university and the Production Association " Persevering Women ", of the Eliane Parque community. Its general objective is to promote the exchange of knowledge through the organization of the space "Culture wheels", enabling discussion, reflection and production of knowledge about culture, gender, generational, ethnic and environmental relations. Its methodology of work is based on the popular education and the Feminist Pedagogy and proposes the discussion of issues related to education and diversity, with specificity for gender issues. Thus, the university community project enables the meeting between education and diversity, becoming a space of knowledge construction based on principles that lead students, teachers and the community to emancipation. These studies were based on the ideas of Libâneo, Louro, Sardenberg, Gohn, Paulo Freire, Melo Neto, among others. This project has provided the building of educational practices that favor the development of new attitudes on the context of diversity. It also contributes to the discussion of this subject bringing to the "Culture Wheel" experiences that allow the questioning of current social and educational practices, as well as the reflection on gender relations, allowing the construction of more egalitarian and fair relations.