Os Educadores-Palhaços do Grupo Fantasia: o que aprendem e o que nos ensinam sobre educação moral.

Abstract

This dissertation entitled Educators clown of Grupo Fantasia: what we learn and teach about moral education, aimed to understand the overall vision of the members of Grupo Fantasia on moral education developed in voluntary activities carried out in one of the shelters visited for them - the Family Shelter House, Marazion. The subjects are called clowns by educators and educational dimension of social work carried out and express themselves through the singular figure of the clown fun and liberating. They are young people belonging to the New Generation Youth Spiritist Society of Spiritist Maracanaú (SOESMA). With recreational and artistic activities, the group develops a proposal for a moral education inspired by the Spiritist Doctrine, codified by Allan Kardec in the late nineteenth century. There is no intention to do adherents to this doctrine, but to collaborate in the formation of good people, according to the morality of Christ. The guiding research questions were: Who are the young people belonging to the group? How do they work? What it teaches us and learning about moral education in various educational and social activities undertaken by them? The theoretical about moral development, emerged from the perspectives of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kholberg; and moral principles of Rousseau and Pestalozzi, and morality based on spiritualist Allan Kardec. Understanding Group Fantasy about moral education has been investigated by combining two methods of qualitative research: action research proposed by Rene Barbier and Michel Thiollent and Research (auto) biographical developed almost three decades by researchers who use the stories of life in training . The procedures used were: Biographical Reflective Circle (CRB), established in earlier research developed by Professor Braga Ercilia with Grupo Fantasia; participant observation accompanied by the daily intinerância of filming and photographic records. The work has enabled a broad reflection on the practice carried out effectively, leading the group to redesign their pedagogical project. The experience developed by educators clowns can contribute to the field of popular education, particularly in work with children and adolescents, more deeply in the development of values and attitudes that point to a more fraternal and just society.