Undergrads from the USA visit PRECE

Monday, April 12, 2010

Undergrads from the USA visit PRECE

The undergrads Daniel Badal (Psychology – Occidental College) and Alicia Facada (Sociology – Occidental College) have been visiting PRECE since April 6th, 2010. They were introduced to us by SIT Program – School for International Training, which is represented by the NGO World Learning from Brazil.
The objective of the program is to provide students with discussions about Social Justice, Economic Development and Culture.
Since 2007, PRECE has received in average two students per year through this program. They generally spend about five days visiting our Cooperative Popular Schools, interviewing our students; that includes our monitors, facilitators and coordinators.

A pictury with the matriarch of the Andrade family in Cipó:

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A brief account of the educational program known as PRECE.

The principal objective of the Cooperatives Cells Learning Program (PRECE) is to motivate, support, and create opportunities so that children, adolescents, young men and women, and adults of the rural communities of Ceará may invest in their studies, to conclude their basic teaching and to enter the university.

Existing since 1994, PRECE already assists more than 2,000 students of the municipal districts of Pentecoste, Apuiarés, Paramoti, General Sampaio, Unirim, Fortaleza and Maracanaú. The intellectual development of the youths of the rural communities has created a generation of enterprising men and women.

The educational actions of PRECE follow the methodology of Cooperative Learning, where each student has valued experience or expertise and he or she helps the others in the knowledge areas where they are most involved. At the same time, each student receives help from others in the areas where she or he may have more learning problems.

Students study in small motivated groups (educational cells) where each one is responsible for a certain area or discipline of learning. They receive orientations where university students who have participated in the program in the past explain any questions they have. Many of the university students return to their home communities for weekends to participate in the educational cells.

PRECE - Cooperative Cells Learning Program

OUR MISSION

Monday, April 12, 2010