Educommunication as a form of resistance to current adversities and integration of the school community in the periphery

Abstract

This work is part of a research carried out at the Manoel Cavalcanti Proença State School, located on the outskirts of Cuiabá, capital of Mato Grosso, with students from the 1st to the 9th grade of Elementary School, in 2020. From the perspective of school dropout in challenging times, the article presents the educommunication paradigm as a way to involve students through an initiative entitled Mural "Árvore da Esperança", in which productions of drawings, texts and poetry were motivated to be elaborated in response to the question: "What do you expect from the post- pandemic". The research also exposes actions that the public school listed to assist students in the period of social isolation, with the suspension of in-person classes. In this context of the Covid-19 pandemic, an action was carried out that unites two major areas of knowledge, with reflections based on authors from education and communication. Despite the fact that school dropouts are a reality in schools across the country, the pandemic moment has increased the infrequency of children and adolescents in the school routine, whose classes take place remotely, through conversational applications over the internet, or through handouts, in all schools in the network. State of Mato Grosso Education. The educommunicative action presented itself as an alternative to mobilize students to continue motivated to be part of the classes and create communicative ecosystems with sharing of knowledge and experiences.