8 May 2017

CECs receive a visit from an education educator and researcher from São Paulo

Posted in May 8, 2017

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CECs receive a visit from an education educator and researcher from São Paulo

08/05/2017

Text: Ariane Mondo – Ascom ISD

Photos: Ariane Mondo – Ascom ISD and CECs Disclosure

A desirable school for students. This is how the educator Esmeria Rovai thinks it should be the school of the 21st century. She was in Natal (RN) on May 4th and 5th visiting the Science Education Centers (CECs) of the capital of Rio Grande do Norte and Macaíba (RN), because he saw in the pedagogical project developed in these two units of Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) an experience more in tune with contemporary educational reality.

The educator, who has a PhD in educational psychology, stopped teaching in 2012, but remains involved in the field by researching educational projects with different pedagogical proposals in the country: “I found some current pedagogical projects that are more in tune with the reality of the 21st century and one of them is the experience of the CECs. Here I am, delighted with the work that is being developed here”, says Esméria.

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Esméria participates in ongoing training for educators at CEC Macaíba

In her opinion, today's students need to be educated within a vision that places them as subjects of a life process: “Students are no longer accepting the content and the way this content is being taught to them. This school model is seen as boring. This situation needs to be reversed,” emphasizes the educator.

Esméria is a member of an association focused on quality education in São Paulo, GVive, and worked on a project in the 1960s called Ginásio Vocacional (GV). After getting to know the CECs better, she recognized some similarities with GV, including the methodology adopted, which, through projects, makes students co-participants in their development plan. The educator also saw similarities in the idea of what it means to educate a citizen, committed to their own development, but also to the community where they live, based on the concept that the school itself is a community and the student is an active participant in the construction of this community.

Finally, she noted that the CECs are managing to offer an attractive, desirable school, where students like school not because of the snacks or because they receive a uniform and meet their friends, but because they like to learn. “In the continuing education meeting between the CEC educators in Macaíba and the teachers from the partner schools, I shared that they should take this idea to their schools, to make today’s school a desirable place,” Esméria concluded.

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Esméria Rovai com a Diretora dos CECs, Dora Montenegro e o coordenador do CEC Natal, Walter Romero Jr. — Esméria Rovai with the Director of CECs, Dora Montenegro and the coordinator of CEC Natal, Walter Romero Jr.

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Esméria Rovai com a Diretora dos CECs, Dora Montenegro, o coordenador do CEC Macaíba, Luciano Frois e o assistente da Oficina de Ciência e Arte, Paulo Sérgio. — Esméria Rovai with the Director of the CECs, Dora Montenegro, the coordinator of the CEC Macaíba, Luciano Frois and the assistant of the Science and Art Workshop, Paulo Sérgio.

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The Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) is a Social Organization that maintains ties with the Ministry of Education (MEC), whose mission is to promote education for life, forming citizens through integrated teaching, research and extension actions and contributing to a more just and humane transformation of Brazilian social reality.

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