Abstract

The Paulo Freire Pavilion is a collective educational space focused on debates in the field of Popular Outreach and the exchange of experiences between different actors and initiatives of most various fields. It is an opportunity for professionals, students, teachers, technicians, and representatives of social and popular movements to give visibility to their actions and socialize the way of doing of the practices of popular education, not restricted to a specific area, rather a theoretical and methodological framework that leads to these practices.The Pavilion hosts various educational activities, such as conversation circles and various expressions of popular art, popular theatre, poetry, regional or ethnic dances, moments of debate on popular education in health or experienced issues, film screenings, mystiques and numerous attentions. First, it promotes closeness to the public using the principle of amorosity to understand what should be questioned with a view to emancipation. The methodology promotes the collective construction of knowledge, valuing multiple forms of dialogue between the individual and collective actors who want to think certain subjects and rescue the regional culture and ancestry, and involves a proposal for multiple care allowing those who want to offer an uncommon care in traditional areas to do so, understanding that caring and being cared for is also learning about themselves and about the possibilities of the world. The goals of this pavilion are: to share the experience of the facilitator in the field of Popular Education in Health in Brazil and her relationship with the University, a display of some Brazilian experiences in Popular Education in Health; to discuss the recent National Popular Education in Health Policy and discuss popular practices and communication methodologies in the academic environment and the community.

Bio note

The popular educator Fernanda Nocam is an actress, joker in Theatre of the Oppressed, mental health psychologist, and anti-asylum activist, among other Brazilian democratic struggles. Currently, she is a researcher at the Psychology Course of the State University of Minas Gerais (UEMG) Ituiutaba-MG unit. Of several of her university outreach projects is the Paulo Freire Pavilion in 2015. With the National Coordination of Popular Education in Health, she develops the strengthening of meetings between social groups with projects next to the public. In 2014, she published an article concerning the Theatre of the Oppressed as a democratic method of communication and building of collective knowledge, towards a Theatre of Emergencies. In 2007 while a doctoral student at the University of São Paulo (USP), she conducted a doctoral stay at CES under the supervision of Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos and during 2016, following his master classes, she noted that the theme Popular Education would be addressed,  thereby fostering the desire to bring the Paulo Freire Pavilion to CES.

Activity within the research project ALICE -  Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences