<b>Research and local action: on compasses and other travel instruments</b>

Matheus, Tiago Corbisier

doi:10.1590/0103-656420170021

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Articles • Psicol. USP 29 (1) • Jan-Apr 2018 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-656420170021 copy

Research and local action: on compasses and other travel instruments ¹ 1 This research work was done in a partnership between the Centro de Estudos em Administração Pública e Governo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (CEAPG/FGV) and Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), with the professor and researcher Lucio Bittencourt, as well as the researchers Roberth Miniguine Tavanti of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP), Guilherme Vasconcelos of the CEAPG/FGV, Murilo Silva and Bruna Moreira of the UFABC. We belong to a group of researchers that deals with the theme of Urban Vulnerabilities and Public Action on the edges of the city of São Paulo (particularly M’boi and Campo Limpo), in the metropolitan region with the same name, in the uncertain borders with other municipalities in its surroundings (Cotia, Embu das Artes, Itapecerica da Serra, and Embu Guaçu). In this stage of research, we have the collaboration of organizations in the region, including A Banca and the three state schools, whose names have been changed due to institutional issues. Our research perspective of the vulnerabilities and potentialities faced by the local youth elected the axis of cultural and social-educational practices as privileged action and research perspectives.

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Abstract

From an experience in a region away from downtown São Paulo, Brazil, we discuss the research method used, based on the action research proposal. In 2016, along with two State schools and an organization devoted to education and culture, we developed 33 actions between workshops and round-table discussions with young people, teachers, managers, and cultural agents. As result, we could see the fruitfulness of actions guided by the listening and recognition of each person as a subject of law, capable of standing up for themselves. For the creation of the joint action strategy, we found out that the results depend on constructing partnership bonds as well as a willingness to listen and the configuration of each social and institutional context. Since it is not possible to establish a single parameter for all situations, the researcher’s position becomes their guideline: their sense of ethics is the compass needed to travel through the map of the territory.

Keywords:
method; action research; education; culture; ethics

Location	Activity type	Nº of meetings/participants	Proposal	Results
E. E. Pedro Bardo	Debate on political representation	Four meetings with four classes of 35 students (140 young people).	Dialogue among peers, listening to conflicts, mobilization for the formation of young people.	Heterogeneous: two classes more interested, two more passive.
E. E. Mariano de Souza	Listening to demands	Two meetings with two groups of teachers (13 participants in total).	Listening to demands and conflicts; school diagnostic construction.	Critical outburst because of the fragile situation of teachers and the school; insecurity and uncertainty; willingness to dialogue.
E. E. Mariano de Souza	Presentation and discussion of the partial diagnosis made by teachers	Eighteen teachers in planning semester.	Facilitating dialogue; direction with teachers; mobilization joint action.	Identification via difficulties; show a critical and suspicious attitude towards management; interest for dialogue.
E. E. Mariano de Souza	References and trajectories	Two classes of students at night; five meetings with each one (70 participants).	Reference trajectory construction: community, family, dreams, challenges.	Satisfaction for being listened to; disputes between students; demonstration of dispersed interest.
A Banca	Map	Fifty-seven participants between the two neetings.	Shared symbolic reference; social image; inclusion and belonging.	A map of itself is new and interesting; cultural event concentrates the greater attention; distances decrease in cultural events of interest.
Total	298 participants; 33 workshops

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[1] *Corresponding address: tiago.matheus@fgv.br