Resumo:
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.
