In Boundaries: the proposal of the trivium curriculum in the context of Portuguese for Haitians

Abstract

This article is an clipping of a doctoral research project, developed in the Graduate Program in Education of the University of São Paulo (FEUSP). It aims to present the first approaches of the research, with Haitian students in a learning project of Portuguese. Through participant observation in the classes, the first stage of the project took place in an Centro Integrado de Educação de Jovens e Adultos (CIEJA) in the city of São Paulo. We raise elements belonging to the borders that cross the Haitian diaspora of the students participating in the Portuguese. Considering the theorizations of the Ethnomathematics Program, Freire's concept of the theme and the possibilities of a proposal based on trivium knowledge (materacy, literacy and tecnoracy) and approaching the reality of the students, we identified the theme generator Work, as an element that can mobilize knowledge that surrounds it in daily life. We hope that the life history of Haitian students and the elements that limit them socio-culturally can, in addition to bringing school knowledge, to remove them from the borders of invisibility and racism.