The Dialogic Inclusion Contract (DIC) consists in an agreement between the scientific community and social agents to define successful actions aimed at overcoming social exclusion in highly underprivileged areas. Taking the case of a Spanish neighborhood that is generating important transformations, this article explores the process of defining these successful actions by the means of contrasting the scientific community knowledge and the one arising from the experiences of the people living and working in that particular neighborhood. The contrast is analyzed through three principles that are part of the Critical Communicative Methodology (CCM): communicative rationality, elimination of the interpretative hierarchy, and considering people as transformative social agents.

[RETIRADO/WITHDRAWN] Comunidades de Aprendizagem é proposta de transformação das escolas para garantir máxima aprendizagem, convivência plena na diversidade e participação da comunidade nos processos e decisões. O livro apresenta Comunidades de Aprendizagem em cinco capítulos: o primeiro está dedicado ao contexto atual, em âmbito internacional, e às implicações e especificidades do Brasil, que colocam às escolas o desafio de se transformar; o segundo traz o conceito de Aprendizagem Dialógica, base teórico-metodológica de Comunidades de Aprendizagem; o terceiro trata das fases de transformação em Comunidade de Aprendizagem; o quarto traz o funcionamento dos processos de uma Comunidade de Aprendizagem, com base em experiências pesquisadas pelas autoras em Comunidades de Aprendizagem do Brasil e da Espanha; o livro é encerrado com elementos favorecedores e os que são obstáculo, no contexto brasileiro, para a transformação das escolas em sentido mais democrático, dialógico e de garantia de aprendizagem para todos os estudantes.

Research on preventive socialization of gender violence has contributed abundant empirical evidence that attraction to violence is common among adolescents. This has meant that “bad guys,” or those who reflect the Dominant Traditional Masculinity (DTM) model, are chiefly perceived as appealing, while “good guys” are perceived as good friends but not desirable. The mainstream media tends to reproduce this traditional model of affective-sexual relationships, which has harmful effects on young girls concerning gender and sexuality. However, New Alternative Masculinity men are challenging this traditional and unsatisfactory model of affective-sexual relationships. The 2010 Spanish version of the movie Three Steps above Heaven, a good example of this kind of media product, has proven to greatly impact communicative acts among adolescents. This article explores how this influence on adolescents is because the communicative acts about Hache – the main character in the movie – are full of the language of desire, and his own communicative acts are full of violence. On the one hand, we analyze how Three Steps above Heaven employs communicative acts to enhance the attractiveness of DTM. On the other hand, based on the evidence gathered in a communicative focus group (CFG) addressed to 15- and 16-year-old female adolescents, we analyze how New Alternative Masculinity men are demystifying Hache and the idea of having a “Three Steps Above Heaven” by demonstrating with the powerful language of desire that men like him employ farce strategies. The article includes evidence from interventions with adolescents where discussion of movies like this, with the involvement of New Alternative Masculinity men and grounded in the language of desire, can transform the perception about the sexual-affective relationship in the movie, thus counteracting their negative influence in terms of attraction to violence.

Print) 1578-4118 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcye20 Diálogo y escuela en Brasil: comunidades de aprendizaje Roseli Mello To cite this article: Roseli Mello (2009) Diálogo y escuela en Brasil: comunidades de aprendizaje, Cultura y Educación, 21:2, 171-181, ResumenLa temática desarrollada en el presente texto remite, necesariamente, a las contribuciones de Paulo Freire, educador brasileño que se hizo ciudadano del mundo. Para abordar el tema, me baso en algunas obras freireanas, destacando contribuciones importantes sobre la relación entre diálogo y escuela. Seguidamente, presento la propuesta de Comunidades de Aprendizaje, como camino metódico de establecimiento del diálogo en escuelas. Sigue el relato del proceso de transformación de tres escuelas en Comunidades de Aprendizaje, en la ciudad de São Carlos, Brasil, que está siendo acompañado e investigado por el Núcleo de Investigación y Acción Social y Educativa (NIASE), de la Universidad Federal de São Carlos. Para finalizar el texto haré unas reflexiones respecto cómo la propuesta de Comunidades de Aprendizaje está en consonancia con lo que defiende Freire sobre la participación de la comunidad en los procesos de democratización de la escuela y del aprendizaje en la institución. Palabras clave: Diálogo, educación, aprendizaje, escuela, comunidades de aprendizaje. Dialogue and school in Brazil: Learning communities AbstractThe subject matter developed in the text necessarily refers to Paulo Freire's contributions, the Brazilian educator who became a citizen of the world. To address this topic, the paper is based on some Freirean writings that constitute important contributions on the relation between dialogue and school. The proposal of Learning Communities, as a methodical way to establish dialogue in schools, is presented next. This is followed by an account of the process of transforming three schools into Learning Communities in São Carlos, Brazil, which is being monitored and researched by the Nucleus of Social and Educational Investigation and Action (NIASE) of the Federal University of São Carlos. To conclude, some reflections are made on how the present Learning Communities' proposal is congruent with Freire's thoughts on community participation in both school democratisation and learning processes.

Women and men, young, and adult, who have reached youth or adult life without elementary schooling, are part of an important and vulnerable group in Latin America, as for instance Brazil. Integrating the studies that seek to contribute to a qualitative change in Brazilian Adult Education, as a means for overcoming inequalities and in support of most vulnerable groups within the population, this article regards the case of the first Adult Education School in Brazil to transform into learning community. The research was developed between 2014 and 2016 and refers to a qualitative case study using the communicative approach, guaranteed by the use of the Communicative Methodology. Data was collected using four techniques pertaining to the Communicative Methodology: communicative in-depth interview with the school's Adult Learning and Education coordination; communicative daily-life story with students and volunteers; communicative focus groups with students, volunteers, and teachers; and communicative observation in Successful Educational Actions. The results indicate transformative and excluding elements that emerged in the following categories: the school's characteristics studied, work and life conditions and access to schooling and continuity in school, and interaction within the learning community. Comparing the results that indicate positive aspects of the Adult Learning and Education school transformed into learning communities to results in other studies about other successful Adult Learning and Education schools in Brazil, it can be established that they coincide in some aspects and go beyond in others. Although coincidence between studies was observed, they were more intensely noticed in the learning community regarding the following aspects: (a) school management oriented toward learning, with contact mechanisms with students that began missing classes, (b) appreciation, from the school staff, of teaching and learning processes, specially reading and writing, (c) a welcoming environment, bonding between professionals and students, and high expectations toward students. As for the elements identified in the learning community which were not found in the other Brazilian studies, they were: (a) enrollment increase over time and decrease in student dropout rates throughout the year, and (b) overcoming dramatic situations experienced in the neighborhood and in the school that could initially lead to school dropout.