Information Sheet 1

1. Introduction

The Paulo Freire Center for Study and Research is a private, not-for-profit organization with educational and cultural goals dedicated to keep alive the ideas of Paulo Freire, Pernambucan educator and a reference point for education in Brazil and in the world.

The Paulo Freire International Colloquium is a synthesizing activity of the Center which broadens the horizons of the Center, to create a time and space for presentations of studies, research projects, and reports of educational experiences developed both within and outside of the formal school system.

Between 19 and 22 September, 2005, the Center will host on the campus of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, the 5 th International Paulo Freire Colloquium to continue and broaden the discussions begun in the previous colloquia. This year, the central theme will be: PAULO FREIRE: CHALLENGE TO A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

2. Thematic lines

2.1 MULTICULTURALITY AND EDUCATION

Description: The principal hypothesis is that cultural diversity makes an inter and intracultural dialogue possible in the contstruction of educational processes involving the popular and underprivedged sectors of national and world society in response to the challenges of post-modernidity/world. That is, construction of a non-schooled education but at the same time school which englobalizes the various implications of cultural diversity, works for dialogue between cultures (interculturality) by means of the pedagogical practice involved. This experience of interculturality contributes to the construction of multiculturality in educational institutions. And multiculturality becomes the fundamental characteristic of a democratic society.

2.2 CULTURE, WORK AND SOCIAL IDENTITY

Description: This theme aims to contribute towards a reflection on the individual aspects of cultures, in an attempt to understand the processes of the production of cultural identities and their relationships with sustainable human economic development. In substance, the theme aims to provoke reflection on the incompleteness of cultures and the need to establish intercultural dialogical relations at the local, regional, national and international levels.

2.3 UNTESTED FEASIBILITY, HOPE AND THE PEDAGOGY OF GREAT CONVERGENCES

Description: This theme attempts to demonstrate that multicultural politico-pedagogical practices and concepts are pregnant with Freirian 'alternativity'. Alternativity which flies in the face of the hegemony of one-way thinking as manifested in the different spheres and dimensions of our reality, as does the viability of the Freirian utopia in the midst of the scale of hegemonic values of the market society.

These broad themes provide a space for reflection, questioning and proposals, such as:
Every-day questions as the political-pedagogical locus of the untested feasibility;
- Identification of pedagogies for a multicultural society;
- Teaching the “untested feasibility”in every-day relations, from a freirian perspective, in the construction of a multicultural society in relationship to:

• Class
• Gender
• Ethnicity
• Generation relationships
• Cosmos/space
• Intra/intersubjective
• The sacred

The three broad themes allow for the development of innumerable threads when they are seen through the perspective of transversality and interdisciplinarity. Extension of these themes could include some of the following: struggle, rights, and social policy; social policy management policies; professional development of teachers and educators; popular education; educational policies; eco-pedagogy and globalization; literacy (alphabetização) and knowing the alphabet (letramento); educational thinking and practice; gender relations in education; autonomy, indignation and hope; multicultural relations in everyday living; ethnic and racial challenges; relations with the sacred; associationalism and social movements; solidarity economy; the world and the neighborhood; the media and new technology. Dialogue, conscientization, and ethics are ideas that will run through all of the works.

3. Structure

The Academic program will include

• Conferences given by specialists invited by the Paulo Freire Center – studies and research;
• Round Tables, either at the invitation of the Organizing Committee or proposed by interested individuals;
• Oral Communications on on-going studies and research;
• Reports of Experience referring to on-going freirian practices.

4. Standards for the review and acceptance of abstracts and complete texts.

4.1 Abstracts of proposals for Round Tables, Oral Communications and Reports of Experience should be sent by e-mail only to this address: vcoloquiopaulofreire@paulofreire.org.br before the 30 th of April 2005 , accompanies by the Registration form for the event and a copy of proof of payment . The form and proof may be sent by fax (81) 2126-8320/8322, or scanned and sent by e-mail to the above address (make sure the copy has your name on it!).

4.2 If your submission is approved, the complete text should be posed by conventional mail before July 30, 2005, accompanied by the work on a disk. The Paulo Freire Center cannot guarantee the publication works sent after this date in the Annals of the Colloquium.

4.3 Each author may submit 1 (one) individual work and up to 2 (two) works as co-author, bringing to 3 (three) the total number of works that can be authored by an individual.

4.4 Presentations will only be accepted for the 5 th Colloquium by individuals who have paid in full their registration fee.

Complete texts and CD’s should be sent to the following address:

Centro Paulo Freire – Estudos e Pesquisas
Centro de Educação – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco/ UFPE
Av. Acadêmico Hélio Ramos, s/n.
Cidade Universitária CEP: 50670-901, Recife/PE – BRASIL

5. Editorial Standards

The Editorial standards for both abstracts and full texts (Oral Communications, Reports of Experiences, and Round Tables) which will be published in the Annals of the 5th Colloquium and on the website of the Digital Paulo Freire Library are as follows:

• The work must be produced using text editor Word 97 or 2000 for Windows, formatted for A4 paper using Times New Roman font at 12 pt, single-spaced with the sides justified. Figures should be convertible to Word 97 or 2000 (.bmp, .gif, .jpg). Use italics only for foreign words and bold only for emphasis. Long quotations should be in 11pt and footnotes in 10pt.

• The abstract has a limit of 300 words and should include the title, name(s) of the author(s) and the objectives, methodology, results and conclusions, followed by three (3) key words separated by: space hyphen (-) space.

• The full text should be between 10 and 15 pages, numbered in order with no number on the first page, using Arabic numbers at the lower right-hand side of the page. The upper and left-hand margins should be set at 3 cm and the right and lower margins at 2 cm. Footnotes should be numbered systematically throughout the paper and placed at the bottom of each page. The final text should begin with a short summary, indented 1 cm on each side and written in 11pt, with the three key words at the end. The title should be in bold, using capital letters, and centralized. The name(s) of the author(s) should be written in full, in bold, aligned to the right, using capital letters only for the first letter of each name. At the bottom of the first page, there should be a brief description of each author (academic degrees, institutional affiliation and e-mail address). Bibliographical references should be included with the text.

• The text may be written in Portuguese, Spanish, French or English and should observe the most recent ABNT standards.

6. Standards for the Presentations

The Round Tables should have three presenters as well as a Coordinator. The cooordinator may be appointed by the Organizing Committee.

• The Coordinator will have 5 minutes to open the presentation and 5 minutes to close it off. The Coordinator is also responsible for providing direction and presenting a report to the Colloquium Secretary at the end of the session.
• Round Table speakers will have 30 minutes each. 20 minutes will be used for discussion.

Presentations of Oral Communications and Reports of Experiences will be organized in groups of three. The speakers will have 20 minutes each, with 60 minutes being reserved at the end for discussion.

Round Tables, Demonstrations and Papers will be presentated in simultaneous sessions. The Organizing Committee will arrange for the composition of as many Round Tables and Sessions for Oral Communication and Reports of Experiences as necessary.

Acceptance of a proposal for a Round Table, Oral Communication or Report of Experience in the Academic Program of the 5 th International Paulo Freire Colloquium is conditioned on the completion of a registration form, completely filled out, and proof of payment of the deposit of the registration fee.

7. Annals

Registrants have the right to one copy of the Colloquium Annals when it is published.

8. Certificates of work presented will be given only to those presenters who both participate actively in the presentations and are registered participants in the Colloquium. Those who have paid the fee as members of the Paulo Freire Center must be up-to-date with their membership. Others may have their names included among the authors in the proceedings of the Colloquium.

9. Book Launchings

Anyone wishing to launch a book during the event should inform the Organizing Committee before the 15 th of September, 2005.

10. Registration Fees for the 5th International Paulo Freire Colloquium

Teachers of Basic Education who register in groups of ten (10) or more and pay the registration fee before the 31 st of May, 2005, may receive a discount, paying R$70,00 each. After that date, the fee rises to R$80,00.

V Colóquio Internacional Paulo Freire
Banco do Brasil - Banco 001 - Agência 3613-7 - Cidade Universitária
Conta Corrente – 20315-7
Recife, PE, Brasil.

A participant is considered registered for the Colloquium when a copy of proof of deposit is submitted by mail or fax, together with the registration form completely filled out and legible. The registration form may also be submitted by e-mail.

11. Organizing committee

Maria Nayde dos Santos Lima President, Centro Paulo Freire-Estudos e Pesquisas
Alcides Restelli Tedesco Vice-President, Centro Paulo Freire
Xavier Uytdenbroek Technical-Educational Diretor, Centro Paulo Freire
José Edson de Oliveira Lima Financial Diretor, Centro Paulo Freire
Zélia Maria Soares Jófili Secretary Director, Centro Paulo Freire
Beatriz Barros de Melo e Silva Coordinator of Administrative Services, C. P. Freire
Argentina Carlos da Silva Rosas Centro Paulo Freire
Maria Eliete Santiago Centro Paulo Freire, UFPE E FUNDAJ
Carlos Silvan ANEPS e Centro Paulo Freire
Maria da Graça Oliveira Centro Paulo Freire

12. Academic Committee