"Educação pela cidadania": uma proposta extracurricular e a gestão democrática

Abstract

This research aimed to relate the actions of the coordinating team and educators with the design: "Educating for Citizenship" in a school of the peripheral zone of Santa Maria/RS. The methodology was characterized as a qualitative case study. Attended by the director , the educational coordinator , educational coordinator , two teachers from the school project , three parents and five students , aged 9 and 13, totaling 13 people . They signed an informed consent to answer a questionnaire. Also, to use participant observation in project activities. The analysis of the information was through the contents studied in relation to the data collected. The project is based on integrated actions, which defines the direction of extracurricular activities in pedagogical dimensions, political and social. Aims to transform children's social and family related to school projects, and create opportunities for a democratic and participatory integration of the whole school community in the process. In this perspective of education realizes change significantly from day to day for each child, featuring transformations in the educational process.