"Ninguém fica pra trás!": o cursinho popular Marielle Franco como ação educativa

Abstract

This work is the result of an ethnography carried out at the Cursinho Popular Marielle Franco, from Rede Emancipa, in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, with an emphasis on the performance that I had in the field, in person and on a daily basis, during the year 2019. Rede claims itself as a social movement of popular education that is organized nationally, mainly through popular preparatory courses for the Enem and entrance exams, aimed at the socioeconomically vulnerable population, black people and students from the public school system. The research investigated some questions that surround the existence of the course: how educational practices take place when it is necessary to criticize and denounce the exclusionary character of entrance exams and Enem and, at the same time, the proposal to enable the access of the lower classes to Universities Public? How to deal with this conflict when the students of popular courses, commonly, are surpluses that are left out of the vacancies? In addition, what are the uses and appropriations of the “popular education” category, considering the dialogue between the social movement and the party militancy in the cram and the network? That said, I shed light on some discursive elaborations, organizational strategies and conflicts observed in the field, showing the plural, dynamic and multifaceted character of Cursinho Marielle Franco.