PEDAGOGICAL INTERVENTIONS IN URBAN AREAS IN BRAZIL: THE SITUATION OF THE A UNIÃO FAZ A VIDA PROGRAM

ABSTRACT

This article aimed to identify and analyze pedagogical interventions in urban territories in Brazil, based on the situation of the A União Faz a Vida Program. It examined the problematic relations established between education, citizenship, and local development, in order to understand the ways in which social action projects are implemented in school experiences, especially those whose guidelines assume the binomial school-territory as a privileged principle. Based on a bibliographic review and documentary study, it analyzes the referred program, developed in seven Brazilian states, and its intervention purposes. It concludes that, from the pedagogical point of view, the program has the potential to mobilize new urban pedagogies and expressive changes in the territories, but it has some limitations in its formative strategies and political directions.

KEYWORDS
education; citizenship; territory; engagement