FORMIGUEIRO
PATHS TO A TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION
About the Web Series
A web series about possible paths to building a transformative education. Each episode tells a story of experiences that overflow into practices.
YEAR
PARTNERSHIP
2020
Suma and Phi Institute and
Culture Present on Social Media 2 Announcement
Just adjust your lenses to notice the movement. It is low and always quick. Ants have more communion than comparison, they present and represent different ways of re-existing. They stamp the interdependence in a silent revolution that takes place in community. Who said that the ant does not sing? It treads quickly, those who cannot handle the ant do not stir up the anthill.
Pisa ligeiro, quem não pode com a formiga não atiça o formigueiro.
Claudio Miranda, Rodrigo Torquato, Tainá Antonio e Sara Wagner nos contam um pouco das suas vivências.
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Episode 1 (Season 1)
Claudia Miranda
Claudia Miranda is a black woman, professor and researcher. With great generosity and presence, she narrates in this interview her journey in the Brazilian public universities scene and the importance of education beyond the walls of these institutions. During her educational journey, Claudia tells us that she learned about the importance of daring in concepts and going beyond the curriculum. In a sankofa movement -- returning to the past to resignify the present and build the future -- she weaves together with her students a network of dialogue and experiences that investigates experiences and movements in the Latin American context and the various possible cuts of this reality.
Episode 2 (Season 1)
Rodrigo Torquato
Rodrigo Torquato is a Rocinha native and a professor and researcher at the Fluminense Federal University. In this interview, he talks about his journey to becoming a teacher and his ongoing literacy project for the working classes. With great strength and “criminal intelligence” – a concept he has been developing theoretically – he reaffirms his anti-capitalist struggle and points out the structural gaps between today’s schools and their students.
Episode 3 (Season 1)
Tainá Antônio
Tainá Antonio is 25 years old and is from Baixada Fluminense. She is a young black woman from Duque de Caxias. An environmental scientist by training, she found in yoga the possibility of redefining peripheral territories and is the creator of the Yoga Marginal project. In this interview, Tainá tells how, as a master's student at UFRJ, she is researching the African origins of self-care practices and yoga that are already part of everyday life in the outskirts. From Sarra Yoga to meditation on the crowded train, she shows us how yoga is already alive in the outskirts, just as "the baobab already exists in its potential seed" (Tierno Bokar).
Episode 1 (Season 2)
Sara Wagner York
Sara Wagner York is a teacher, woman, father and grandfather. Transvestite of/in Education. Researcher, Master in Education (UERJ) and PhD candidate in Teacher Training (UERJ), graduated in Letters - English (UNESA), Pedagogy (UERJ) and Vernaculars (UNESA), specialist in Gender and Sexualities (IMS/CLAM/UERJ), presenter of TV 247, coordinator of the Antra Network, and has also worked as a volunteer with the British NGO Sahir House in the United Kingdom, including refugees from the Middle East and Africa.
Sponsorship:
This episode is sponsored by the Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro, State Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of Rio de Janeiro, through the Cultura Presente nas Redes 2 Public Notice.
