By Luis Eduardo Azevedo Popular education is based on the idea that knowledge only gains meaning when it engages with people’s concrete realities. Inspired by Freirean pedagogy, it proposes an approach to education that recognizes individuals as capable of critically interpreting the world, in contrast to the passivity traditionally assigned to students. From this perspective arises the question that shapes my work as a high school student and educator in training: how can ed

By Thiago Aiamari Kavopi Source: Thiago Aiamari Kavopi. Paikum Village, Kurâ-Bakairi Indigenous Territory, Municipality of Paranatinga, Mato Grosso, Central-West Brazil. April is a symbolic month. For many, it is just another date on the calendar. For us, Indigenous peoples, it is a time of memory, struggle, and reaffirmation of our existence. I was born in the Kurâ-Bakairi Indigenous Territory, located in the municipality of Paranatinga, Mato Grosso, Brazil. I am Kurâ-Bakair

by Andréia Maria de Lima Assunção Exhibition "Gordon Parks - I Am America" at IMS Paulista. Photo by Julia Thompson. Recently, I had the opportunity to experience part of Gordon Parks’ (1912-2006) photographic archive. During the visit, I encountered records made between the 1940s and 1970s, in the midst of the horror of racial segregation in the United States. His photographs bring to life scenes ranging from the beauty of daily life in Harlem and rural Alabama to liberation

By Marcella Winter Normalistas (student teachers) from the Escola da Praça, future IE Caetano de Campos, demonstrating manual labor; 1909. (Caetano de Campos Collection; CRE M. Covas) Have you ever reflected on how the social roles assigned to teachers and mothers intertwine in the history of education? Since Early Childhood Education—long known as "maternal" (nursery)—the care and education of children have been predominantly carried out by women. In the early years of Eleme