Paixão, organização e aprendizagem: um estudo de caso do Projeto Chapada

Abstract

This thesis contributes with the studies that focus on passion's value to the understanding on the learning process. It is intended to examine passion influence on such process in an empiric context that was identified as being rich of learnings based on passion. This is the Projeto Chapada, a project coordinated by the Instituto Chapada de Educação e Pesquisa (ICEP), which is a civil society of public interest with the mission of enhancing basic and formal education through support, capacitation and complementary formation of educators. The comprehension of socio-practical knowledge ensures the necessary vitality of practices and learning, knowledge of the self and of the world, and of the self with the world. These elements are paramount to increase passion, conceived in this study as an intense desire on learning and doing. Living passion leads thus to amplifying diverse aspects of connection and the search in order to achieve common goals – generating and magnifying competences and social effectiveness. The study allows us to verify that contact, attracting individuals with a common passion, propitiates the development of structures that bring about a contagious passion among those who are or will eventually be involved in the activity. This research enlightens that, although contact and contagion are relevant aspects of the way in which passion takes effect, they are not, by themselves, sufficient. Passion needs a structure that provides support and maintenance, allowing and ensuring the connection of individuals with themselves and with others, with questions faced considering their historical time and with the entireness of which they are part.