Foro Social Mundial: Un proceso pedagógico de desconstrucción de mitos y construcción utópica.

This paper is the result of some partial research done under the title Daily education, pedagogy and the environment: constructing an ecological perspective of education, where the ethnography of pedagogical practice is one of the principal components. The pedagogical proposal is framed within the theory of social representations, the innovations of Serge Moscovici, the autonomous pedagogy of Paulo Freire, and in the post-modern perspective of environmental education. Using The Social Forum of Porto Alegre as a reference, and the scenario of the utopia of "The other world is possible", we study how the representations were deconstructed, and how a minimum knowledge concept was constructed on the theme by students in the Masters Degree in Education program. The analysis was carried out through texts produced weekly by the male students and by the female students in the Masters Degree program. In the pedagogical program weekly photos taken by the researcher and the professor during the opening walk of the Porto Alegre Social Forum were used and served as didactic material. They also served as didactic material for the purpose of touching upon and stimulating narratives and living testimonials by the anonimous male and female students of study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]