EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS IN THE CIRANDA OF THE DEGREE COURSE IN COUNTRYSIDE EDUCATION: (RE)THINKING ABOUT PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE WITH AND FROM CHILDREN
Name: JOSILENE SEPULCRO DO NASCIMENTO AMARAL
Publication date: 26/08/2025
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| DÉBORA SCHIMITT KAVALEK | Examinador Externo |
| JANINHA GERKE | Examinador Interno |
| ROSALI RAUTA SILLER | Presidente |
Summary: At the Degree Course in Rural Education (LEdoC), at the Goiabeiras Campus of the Federal University of Espírito Santo, most of the children arrive with their mothers, who are university students from rural areas. These children are welcomed at the LEdoC Ciranda, a space created through an outreach project. This space not only helps rural working-class mothers to stay in university, but it is also a non-formal educational space for welcoming, caring for, and educating children, focusing on interaction and play. How do the children interact and play with each other and with adults in the Ciranda’s educational space? What is the responsibility of the adults with these children? This research aims to understand how the educational environment of the LEdoC Ciranda encourages interactions and play between children and between children and adults. It is a qualitative case study carried out in the Ciranda space. The methods used include participant observation, interviews, informal conversations, notes in a field notebook, and photographs. The study is based on Childhood Sociology and the theoretical ideas of Caldart (2012), Freire (2005), Fernandes (2004), Corsaro (2011), Sarmento (2011), Ariès (1981), and Walsh (2011), especially in the field of critical interculturality and decolonial thinking. It is expected that the results will help strengthen the Ciranda as a non-formal educational space for children who come with their parents or other adults from the working class.The hope is that it becomes one of the university’s support policies for these people. As an educational product, a documentary video will be created showing the mothers from LEdoC and their children interacting with traditional toys and games. The video will be shared as a tool for teachers and students to use in their daily teaching and will be available on popular platforms and also as a physical material for FNDE/MEC.
