COEXISTENCE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION: AN EXPERIENCE WITH PROJECT-BASED LEARNING IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

This article presents a research developed within the scope of the Scientific Initiation Program of the State University of Parana - UNESPAR. The investigation started from the assumption that the school is a place of coexistence and must play an active role in the ethical formation of students, especially in the sense of educating for the resolution of conflicts. The objective of the research was to develop a project based on the pedagogy of projects with children of the 2nd year of elementary school. We present the analysis of one of the activities carried out in the project with the objective of giving visibility to the need to value the conflicts in the school. The results indicate that articulating the curriculum with themes present in the nowadays social problems contributes to the reflection on the causes of daily conflicts and the learning of democratic ways of resolving conflicts.