Popular pre-college courses taught by university students: Political-pedagogical practices and teacher training

Abstract

The article deals with a nucleus of the Rede Emancipa Movimento Social de Cursinhos Populares (Emancipate Network Social Movement of Popular Education), made up of students from a public university in Minas Gerais, with the purpose of understanding the processes of political formation and teacher training at this nucleus. Bibliographical research bases the field analysis of popular pre-college courses in Brazil, observing the constitutive dilemma of: the conciliation between the objective of preparing for the exams and the intention to be an instrument of popular struggle for the democratization of public higher education. Through a field research, the nucleus of Rede Emancipa is analyzed, with the objective of understanding such dilemmas experienced. The main results reveal the great relevance of this collective, self-managed by students for their self-training as teachers, including important political components aimed at popular mobilization for the expansion of social rights.