DISCURSIVE SPACES AS A POSSIBILITY FOR HUMAN FORMATION AND INCLUSION

Abstract

Based on the concepts of Jürgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action, the Discursive Spaces make it possible, by democratic means, to debate training, management and school inclusion within the collaborative networks established between the university, municipal and state education networks and higher education institutions in Portuguese-speaking countries, through research and extension projects. The purpose is to understand the discursive space as a space for participation between subjects that, through discourse, present arguments to build consensus and strengthen mutual understanding, in order to capture the movements experienced by researchers and participants in research processes carried out through action research; and also to encourage the development of collaborative formation spaces in defense of human formation from the perspective of inclusion. We chose to use qualitative collaborative-critical action research to understand how Discursive Spaces have been configured in the context of the research group. In this initial research process, we took the participants arguments in the moments of constitution of the understanding of Discursive Spaces, in the planning and realization of them. Two municipal education networks took part, involving (municipal) managers, students and teachers (graduate and postgraduate), with training, public policies, management and action research being the themes. It is an urgent challenge to deepen our understanding of these processes and an enormous challenge to establish a culture of sustainability of life, in other words, to promote a re-reading of the world in which life in all its relationships and contradictions is central.