Political participation and teacher education

“Ocupa tudo” movement in Jataí public university (Goiás)

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate the process of political participation of undergraduates in the “Ocupa tudo” movement, in 2016, at the current Federal University of Jataí/GO and its contribution to teacher education and human emancipation. A focus group with 13 undergraduates was used and the content analysis was based on the theoretical-methodological framework of historical-dialectical materialism. From the results, it can be seen that the student movement ‘‘Ocupa tudo’’ was important both for the political formation of these future teachers and for personal education. The university provided a space for discussion and political participation, since political formation was denied in other spaces of socialization. In the same way, the participation of the movement made possible the organization and the theoretical and practical instrumentalization of the undergraduates, mainly contributing to the passage from common sense to philosophical awareness.