SOCIAL JUSTICE AND MODERN SLAVERY

THE CONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION THROUGH PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

Resumo

This chapter describes a project titled La Esclavitud en El Siglo XXI developed in the Spanish Language III course of a technical professional course in commerce for youth and adults (PROEJA) at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS). Based on Freire's critical pedagogy (1987, 2003), we present the development of a Spanish as a Second Language (SSL) teaching proposal based on Project-Based Learning (PBL). This methodological approach aims to build knowledge around a social theme, which becomes the central focus of the project, addressing a question related to the topic under discussion. Therefore, we chose this as an alternative for creating an emancipatory language education, transforming the classroom into a space for the development of more autonomous and critical individuals in relation to their social reality. To this end, we describe the six tasks that comprised the eight-class project and outline the theoretical-methodological path used to construct the activities implemented with the group. Through the implementation of this project and the writing of this chapter, we aim to contribute to the dissemination of successful practices based on the PBL methodology and to inspire future didactic proposals that seek to enhance students' critical thinking through Spanish language learning.