Os fundamentos da educação popular no projeto de extensão da Universidade Federal do Tocantins – Campus de Arraias

Abstract

The present research address foundations Popular Education foundations and extension project in Federal University of Tocantins (UFT) – Campus de Arraias. The objective was to understand which the Popular Education foundations guiding extension project developed in the UFT space: “Popular Education and Social Inclusion”. We sought to know the foundations of Popular Education, identifying contributions of Popular Education to Young and Adult Education and analyzing practices in the project “Popular Education and Social Inclusion”. The study used qualitative methodology and the research-participant approach. The reference bibliographic dialogue with Carlos Rodrigues Brandão (2022), Erasmo Baltazar Valadão; Teresa Cristina Siqueira Cerqueira (2018), Jacques Rancière (2002), Magda Suely Pereira Costa (2008), Marilena Chauí (2003), Moacir Gadotti (2009), Paulo Freire (2014), and other authors. The research realized in the community of the municipality of Arraias – TO. Participated students of the project “Popular Education and Social Inclusion”. The Popular Education Freireana perspective as instrument in the transformation of society and breaking of social injustices, before that the project “Popular Education and Social Inclusion” appears as alternative proposal that escapes the walls of schools and the traditionalism present in these formal education spaces, moving dialogic educational praxis and a democratic.