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This article aims to reflect on education, in its relationship with human rights, taking as a reference the experience of the Sex Workers Movement in Brazil. In methodological and epistemological terms, this is a study with a qualitative approach, which has as its starting point the reflections and textures built from studies on prostitution, sex work and the movement of sex workers. This way, searches were carried out, surveys of studies and reviews of works on the theme addressed in order to contribute to the theoretical foundation of this study. Furthermore, it was part of the methodology to consider the narratives and voices of the interlocutors of the present study as a fundamental part of the data analysis. The discussion presented here intends to problematize the discussions, questions and reflections about education, human right, and the Sex Workers Movement, pointing out, that this Movement is also configured as a Social Movement building other ways of doing education, a historical task that proposes a political-educational praxis since the battle. In this way, it is legitimized that the knowledge built within the Sex Workers Movement shed light and point to unprecedented-viable ways to build a more diverse world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article intends to outline a historical reconstitution of the configuration process of the field of popular education in Brazil, comprising its trajectory and its theoretical-conceptual development from the 1950s to the present day. This is a study with a qualitative approach built from bibliographical research with a descriptive characteristic, which was based on the narrative type review modality. As a result, different experiences, and historical moments of popular education in Brazil are characterized, for example: a) from the genesis to the process of disarticulation; b) the intensification of repression resulting from the civil-military dictatorship to the spread of practices across different sectors; c) from the emergence of new guidelines to the reinvention of the field of popular education; d) from political achievements to institutional challenges. Next, an attempt is made to outline a possible characterization of what popular education is in its multiplicity of perspectives. Finally, it is concluded that, in addition to understanding popular education as a political-pedagogical practice, understandings of this as a theory, a field of knowledge construction, an organized civil society movement, and public policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work comprehensively analyzes the action of popular libraries as an instrument of social transformation, in the light of the ideas of Paulo Freire. Through a bibliographic study, it proposes the conception of a community library based on a lecture that gave rise to the book "The importance of the act of reading", experiences carried out by the author in São Tomé and Príncipe. The debate starts from the assumption that the structuring of a popular library has its origins in social movements, whose intention is to promote the social inclusion of subjects considered marginalized in the educational system. The proposal intends to implement and maintain a community library in partnership with the local community, supporting community activities and serving as a public space for gathering, information, leisure, learning and local memory, the so-called cultural circles. Finally, it highlights the remarkable influence of Freire thought as an educator of ethical, political and critical awareness in the literacy process in Brazil, and, consequently, relevant to the interdisciplinary area of community librarianship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social movements are made of groups of people who share the same territory, collective identities and organize themselves in a democratic and dialogic manner. From these, health care productions integrated with local realities emerge and Paraiba is historically recognized as the cradle of these actions, especially those with theoretical-methodological orientation of Popular Health Education. This research aimed to highlight the history of these groups and their subjects, recording their experiences. To this end, we resorted to a study with a qualitative approach and descriptive character, proceeded by 26 individual semi-structured interviews with social actors, from which the personal and collective historical landmarks of these subjects were extracted and systematized for the construction of a timeline. It was observed that in the period referring to the Military Dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985), many of the experiences were articulated by sectors of the Catholic Church. In other periods, the articulations were carried out by unions and minority groups, popular communities and students, with the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) being the most expressive group present in the trajectories. In this way, the substrate produced will be configured as a collection for other researches, as well as being useful in disseminating the memory of the groups and their historical contributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recognizing the importance of the discussion on collective health from the perspective of Popular Education (PE), in a critical scenario derived from COVID-19 and misgovernment, this experience report explores the experiences in the Observatory of Popular Education in Health and Brazilian Reality. It is an initiative of the Extension "Práticas Integrais de Promoção da Saúde e Nutrição na Atenção Básica" (PINAB) that aims to propagate the PE and bring together its actors. Seven meetings were held and themes were worked on: "The current Brazilian conjuncture and the principles of popular education and its philosophy for the construction of methodological paths of practice", "Food sovereignty as a movement of humanity and civility: what is the role of popular education in health?", "Eugenics processes in Brazil and their consequences on health, education, justice and equity", "The world and its changes: the place and role of popular education in health", and "Popular Education in Health: Paths and alternatives for experiences and practices". This experience promoted reflections about the current conjuncture, retrieving founding concepts of PE and valuable insights in its meetings. It also demonstrated the potentialities in the use of virtual environments as aids in the dialectic methodology of PE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The organization and performance of the feminist movement has historically demonstrated that women are fundamental in the construction of knowledge and practices that promote political education and in defense of human rights, even though they occupy subordinate places in society. In times of democratic setbacks, fueled by a conservative policy and a deep attack on women's rights, especially in Brazil, it is necessary to search for new alternatives and militancy strategies. In the 2018 presidential elections, faced with the imminence of a conservative politician occupying the presidency of Brazil, women organized a movement through social networks called #EleNão (#NotHim), with the objective of discussing and making women aware of the danger posed by the victory of Jair Messias Bolsonaro. Based on the concepts of autonomy and hope proposed by Paulo Freire and popular education, we seek to discuss how the movement brought important developments to the feminist movement and highlighted women as one of the main fronts of resistance to conservatism, contributing to the construction of an education as a practice of freedom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text is inserted in discussions about popular social movements and their articulation around the struggle for education. The article presents the results and reflections of a qualitative research conducted in order to understand some educational aspects that are present in contemporary struggles in defense of public education. For that, a documentary study was developed on the materials produced and disseminated by the collective outlets of the First National Meeting of Education (ENE), held in 2014 in Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil. The collected materials were submitted to the Discursive Textual Analysis (DAT) procedures and the categories of the research were obtained in an inductive manner and contextualized with a critical theoretical framework of educational policies. Research showed assumptions involved in the struggle for public education: the need for rearticulation of organized subjects and reaffirmation of public education as a social right and the resistance to fragmentation and increasing commercialization of the educational field from the scenario given by educational policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this essay is to inventory and, at the same time, to reflect on the urban problems that have taken over the Brazilian social scene and, in particular, on the role that education workers, committed to social and popular movements, may be called upon to play in this framework of structural crisis that the capitalist society is going through and its developments in countries like Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]