Meeting of Knowledge and university extension: educational practices between the School and the Calon Gypsy Community in Sousa/PB

Abstract

This text was written based on the sharing of the circle of dialogue between knowledge, based on the relationship between health, environment, art and educational practices. It was a proposal built on collective experiences, that is, based on the daily lives of the students who make up the Calon de Sousa/PB
Gypsy Community, at the M. E. F. Irmã Iraides Holanda Lavor School, located among the ranches that make up the Gypsy Community, where Early Childhood Education and Elementary Education I (1st to 5th grade) are offered, covering children from 4 to 11 years of age, in the school years of 2022 and 2023. Thus, the intersectionality between gender-race/ethnicity (ecofeminism), health (users’ rights to health based on the Organic Health Law - LOS (8080/90), National Humanization Policy (PNH), Child and Adolescent Health Care Policy) and environment (political ecology) mediated by educational practices in light of the Freirean perspective was followed as an itinerary. This proposal was configured as an extension action, integrating health, education, art
and the environment in the construction of educational practices for the comprehensive training of individuals and institutions covered by this experience. Finally, this extension experience was able to provide reflections by the students participating in the project, so that they were able to see themselves as learning beings in dialogue with the Calon de Sousa/PB Gypsy Community, as well as being able to prepare a booklet on the main human and social rights related to this traditional opulation.