The social projection in the 21st century university: Imagining political spaces outside the classroom

Abstract

Various studies problematize the University-Society relationship, which, should be imagined as a dialogical and constructive relationship as proposed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2012), on the contrary, the current time establishes various tensions for the conception of a university that moves away from the interaction with the popular condition, increasingly captured by the logic of capital and the public agenda of the cooperating agencies and the transnational interest. In this perspective, the following text explores the power of a pedagogical experiment that proposes another framework of meaning for social projection, through strategies that promote teacher training whom, from their practices, mobilize public space, heritage, the city and its cultural interactions as a place of pedagogical encounter and production of subjectivities -others- beyond the conventional spaces of the “scholastic”, in relation to the opening to bilingualism as a pretext of mobilization and agency of the political.