Intervenção, pesquisa e interação dialógica entre os conhecimentos popular e acadêmico

Abstract

Research and extension in communities or territories make up a meeting between two cultures, two subjects, with very different subjectivities, in their way of conceiving this relation. These academic activities can be seen from the point of view of intervention, with elements of popular education, for the participation of the subjects. Thus, the purpose of this essay is to discuss the interaction and knowledge made possible by popular education as a mediator in obtaining data and returning it to the subjects studied, from the perspective of social transformation. This question originated in the interaction between the researcher and several subjects surveyed in the semi-arid North of Minas Gerais and the Jequitinhonha Valley. The action of educational intervention by the public university with society invariably generates impacts on the population. This contributes to the transformation of the realities of the subjects, either in their personal transformation or in the transformation and development of the place studied, reaffirming their identity and ethnicity in coexistence with their territorial ecosystems.