A abordagem metodológica do PAIF no CRAS Cidade Norte, Francisco Beltrão, Paraná, 2023: um processo educativo com a pedagogia freireana.

Abstract

This dissertation, entitled “PAIF’s methodological approach at CRAS Cidade Norte, Francisco Beltrão, Paraná, 2023: an educational process using Freirean pedagogy”, was developed in the Postgraduate Programme in Education, Master’s level, at the State University of Western Paraná (Unioeste), Francisco Beltrão Campus - PR, area of concentration in Education and Research Line: Society, Knowledge and Education. The proposed problem was to understand the educational process present in the methodological approach developed in the socio educational groups of the Serviço de Proteção e Atendimento Integral à Família (Comprehensive Family Protection and Care Service – PAIF, acronym in Portuguese), at the Centro de Referência de Assistência Social (Social Assistance Reference Centre - CRAS, acronym in Portuguese), developed in 2023. This research was justified by the scarcity of materials on Freirean pedagogy as a methodological approach in the PAIF/CRAS, proposing to collaborate with the proposal in the Caderno de Orientações Técnicas sobre o PAIF (Technical Guidance Notebook on the PAIF) (vol. 2).The research was carried out as part of a Unioeste extension project entitled “Socio-educational Dialogical Circles (CDS): a methodological proposal inspired by Paulo Freire's Cultural Circles, with the socio-educational groups of CRAS Cidade Norte, Francisco Beltrão – Paraná”. The aim of the research was to analyse the educational process present in the methodological approach developed with the PAIF/CRAS socio-educational groups, through the CDS. It was a qualitative case study, using documentary research and semi-structured interviews. Some of the categories of analysis were work, care, territory, migration, education, health and food. The analysis showed that the methodological approach in the CDSs used the main categories of Freirean pedagogy: thematic inquiry, problematisation and action, which sought to consider the concrete reality of the participants, contribute to the achievement of the PAIF's objectives, strengthen community ties, promote autonomy and encourage reflection and transformation of reality. In this sense, it was considered that Freirean pedagogy could be an ethical-political and theoretical-methodological commitment of CRAS professionals to the working classes and their emancipation. It is also suitable for dialogical training processes with social welfare professionals.