This article looks into the network of collective actions that lend political and pedagogical meaning to sociability processes in Rocinha shantytown. Pré-Vestibular Comunitário da Rocinha (PVCR), a community education movement based at Rocinha, one of the largest shantytowns in Latin America, prepares students for university entrance examinations. The core objective is to present pedagogical practices built on the PVCR experiences that shape a new teacher development/training perspective in a context where traditional teacher-student relation hierarchies are broken and reinvented from the emancipating power born in the conflicts of the adopted syllabus.
Popular education; Shantytown; Social movements