INSIDE THE SCHOOL . 2023
In 2023, our Every Child Can Learn methodology gave rise to the City of Childhoods project, with initiatives aimed especially at the city of São Paulo. The cooperation with the City Hall made it possible to distribute 140,000 kits of materials for families and students enrolled in the literacy cycle (1st, 2nd and 3rd year of Elementary School) to enhance daily experiences and expand learning possibilities during the school holidays.
The project is based on research that shows that the situations children experience make a big difference to the development of their bodies, thoughts and emotions. Therefore, the first years of life need to be made the most of.
At this stage, many hours of children's daily lives take place outside of school, when they are with their family or caregivers. They spend at least 50 hours a week outside of school. Therefore, it is essential to create good conditions for them to learn, grow and develop in these situations as well.
In practice
The Cidade das Infâncias Project plays an important role in enhancing interactions that are already part of the domestic routine and contributing to strengthening bonds and interactions between children and their families in everyday situations.
Furthermore, it expands opportunities for reading development and learning oral and written language for children in the literacy cycle, beyond those that occur in everyday school life.
Another important goal of the initiative is to raise awareness among those responsible for children about the educational potential of their interactions, deconstructing the idea that learning is exclusive to school. To this end, the project held a workshop to raise awareness among key people in the city's educational units to support actions carried out with families. This allows educators to identify the possibilities for interactions that can occur between children and their families based on the different thematic axes and proposed activities systematized in the materials presented. This makes it easier for families to understand that the materials received are repertoires of ideas and to have a clearer understanding of how to use them in their daily lives.
The materials developed by Labedu encourage and create contexts for families so that children can be stimulated during daily activities and so that new doors of dialogue between families, children and schools are opened. In this way, we contribute to strengthening what is done both within schools and through the mediation of family members and caregivers, in order to ensure the best conditions for children to learn, grow and develop.
