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Politeia
Association
E-Mail:
hsinger@unicamp.br
Address: Rua Lincoln Albuquerque 328, 05004-010, São Paulo - SP - Brazil
Contact Name: Helena Singer
Website:
www.politeia.org.br
Year Founded: 2006
Description:
Association of educators, researches and artists
committed to bring the movement of democratic
education into Brazil. With the specialization
course in democratic education, offered in many
different cities and partnerships with other
organizations, it has united educators and
organizations that were willing to change
everyday life in school.
The Institute for the Democratization of
Education in Brazil, the organization
responsible for the 15th IDEC, now is named
POLITEIA Democratic Education.
POLITEIA, from Greek, refers to a political
being, which aspires to live in a community
structured as polys to exercise, in its
fullness, skills and talents that makes its
uniqueness. That is what democratic education is
about: a proposal for schools, cooperatives and
associations that organize them as learning
communities, where young people and adults can
develop, together and in its fullness, their
talents and passions, and thus find their
singularity.
POLITEIA also refers to a variety of webs. At
democratic schools, their organization in the
form of web links projects, cycles, knowledge,
research, assemblies and committees that develop
and connect, and connect students, educators,
their paths, choices and experiences.
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