O conselho da cidade das crianças: um instrumento para o diagnóstico de novos territórios educativos

Abstract

Having as it starting point an extension project in a school and it propose to overcome the (in)visible walls that surround it, gathering and involving other areas that can contribute for an effective integral formation. Aiming, identifying and reinforcing, starting especially from the point of view of the researcher and the children, potential educational areas that can be incorporated in a full-time educational program already developed in the school, through the elaboration of a diagnosis as social mapping. The research was carried out at Escola Parque Cidadã Cyro Sosnoski, located in Efapi neighborhood, a facility belonging to the municipal network of Chapecó, with the 4th and 5th grade full-time classes, by using combined and resignified instruments in the Children's City Council, with workshops that allowed the children to speak, participate and decide. A qualitative and multi-method approach was used to analyze the collected material in the audio workshops, photographies, and field material, through a transcription process, systemized in charts that allowed the analysis in every single class, and comparison of speeches. These instruments contributed to a diagnosis of the territories lived by the children, helping to map these territories, culminating in a forward-looking perspective of desires and projects to incorporate them as potentially educational. It is noteworthy that, under the pretext of the educational territories, they can develop a participatory democratic culture starting from and with the children, where they are the leading figure and their own spokespersons.