15 anos do Programa de Pesquisa e Extensão Pensar a Educação Pensar o Brasil: defesa de direitos e protagonismo dos agentes da educação

Abstract

The Program Pensar a Educação Pensar o Brasil 1822-2022 (PEPB) was created at UFMG in 2007 with the aim of promoting the role of basic education agents and defending the rights of and to public and democratic education. Through strategies for the public communication of science in the field of education, it has worked with 10 linked projects, disseminating technical and political content through radio, newspapers, seminars, books and magazines. It has created a network of collaborators from different parts of the country and organized an extensive audiovisual production to be made available, free of charge, to education agents working from nursery school to higher education.The experience involved academic teams, who supported the historical research and university extension actions, and formal and informal education agents, from basic education schools, non-governmental organizations, unions and forums in defense of education in Brazil. This article presents and reflects on the 15 years of PEPB's existence defending the rights of and to education in Brazil.