Playing to Transform School Practice Into Concrete History

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 9:50 am Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Reflecting on Pedagogical Praxis Inspired by Paulo Freire (Table 6)

Abstract

This presentation aims to demonstrate how the proposals of the Brincadas Project, grounded in play and based on Freirean and Vygotskian perspectives, are powerful in addressing issues of injustice while simultaneously developing school content. It is an engaged research project that organizes these proposals from the perspective of Engaged Multiliteracy (Liberali, 2022) and Critical Collaborative Research (Magalhães, 2011). Thus, the space for play and performance becomes a potential for the use of imagination, and therefore, a generator of possibilities for creating new things and linking them to social engagement, the possibility of multiple creations of viable unheard (Freire, 1970) through planned play based on "the life that is lived" (Marx; Engels,1845-46), highlighting a decolonial perspective for school practices.

Author

• Luciana Kool Modesto Sarra, Pontifical Catholic University at Sao Paulo