The program Nossa Escola Pesquisa Sua Opinião (Nepso) consists of disseminating the use of surveys as a pedagogical tool in public schools at different levels of education. It is the result of the partnership between Paulo Montenegro Institute and Ação Educativa.
This methodology proposes the development of educational survey projects favoring meaningful learning and promoting experiences of school practice that materialize the principles of content contextualization, subjects integration, valorization of the initiative and autonomy of the young individual, citizenship and participation affirmed in these guidelines, creating possibilities of innovation of the pedagogical work.
This second Nepso Almanac brings 236 survey projects conducted in 2014, organized by levels of education.
For this organization, we have used the structure and functioning of school education in Brazil, where most of the schools that adopt the Nepso methodology are located. Although this structure of teaching is not the same in all the countries that make up the network (Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Portugal), it is possible to draw parallels among all of them, ensuring the consistency of this form of presentation.
Thus, the projects were distributed as follows:
- Preschool and Children Education – 0 to 5 years old;
- Basic Education, subdivided into:
Cycle I – lasting five years, and age group from 6 to 9 years old, for students with a regular trajectory;
Cycle II – lasting four years, and age group from 10 to 14 years old, for students with a regular trajectory; - High School – lasting three years (or four years, when vocational) and age group from 15 to 18 years old, for students with a regular trajectory;
- Higher education that offers undergraduate, graduate and extension courses;
- Youth and adult education (EJA) – a modality, and not a level of education, aimed at adults who did not have access or continuity of schooling during the appropriate age.