Educação, gênero e cultura no Art-Mulheres, n’o Parafuso e MiraMirá (Manaus, 1980 - 1990)

Abstract

This work reflected on the presence of different social movements involved in processes of struggle for the right to education, culture and democracy in popular communication productions (newspapers, pamphlets, bulletins, posters) between the 1980s and 1990s in the city of Manaus. These experiences demonstrate broad articulation with new forms and creation of educational processes around the right to cultural citizenship, the city, land, work, and gender equality, configuring, in those popular communication productions, spaces of struggle and invention of democracy also as a right to the “social production of writing”, dialogic and participatory, in decades of high illiteracy rates in Brazil. Based on the problematization of local alternative newspapers in circulation in the city of Manaus between the 1980s and 1990s, such as “Art-Mulheres” produced by the group “Articulação de Mulheres do Amazonas”, “MiraMirá” with the participation of indigenous movements, and the periodical “Parafuso” organized by Pastoral Operária and workers’ movements, the work in question, supported by understandings of historical-critical pedagogy, sought to understand proposals for society and political debates for the right to culture and the defense of ways of life undertaken by different social movements. In the pages of these alternative publications, the self-organization of women, indigenous people, workers, students and teachers, articulated in popular movements, highlights social practices that present themselves as plural actions and knowledge in our contradictory class society. This study investigated, through popular communication sources, the disputes for the construction of a democratic education in Manaus, articulated by the union and resistance of women, indigenous people, workers, students and teachers in popular and feminist movements. In addition to demanding new rights in the north of the country, the research expanded the concept of education beyond the school spaces, returning to them in a dialectical way and attributing new meanings to the achievements related to the right to public education and culture, integrating the countryside and the city.