The document summarizes 5 open schooling projects in Brazil that aim to support less represented actors and territories through innovative ecosystems. The projects involve partnerships between schools, experts, universities, and local communities. They use project-based learning approaches and digital technologies to engage students in socio-scientific issues that they care about in their local contexts. The goals are to empower students with science capital, strengthen multidisciplinary learning, and prepare students to support sustainable development in their communities. Key activities across the projects include developing podcasts and webradio, online teacher training, gender programs, and networks for indigenous STEAM learning and inclusion.

1. Alexandra
Okada
Karine
Pinheiro
Cíntia
Rabello
Miriam
Struchiner
Luziana
Quadros
Rossana
Moura
Thais
Castro
Innovative ecosystems with Open Schooling
to support less well-represented actors and territories

2. Introduction:
Theoretical foundations
Partnership between
the OU-UK and 5 Open
Schooling projects in
Brazil targeted at less
well represented actors
Multi-case
study

3. Open Schooling for sustainable development
rural
indigenous
suburban
semi-arid
urban
“Open Schooling” is a key approach to innovation ecosystems for promoting
partnerships between schools, experts and less-well representative actors and territories
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4. Research context and participants:

6. Innovation Ecosystems for Sustainable Development
An innovation ecosystem is the evolving set of actors, activities, artifacts, society & environment
to innovate performance, process and products by addressing glocal issues for sustainability.
(underpinned by Granstrand and Holgersson, 2020; Von Schomberg,XX; Owen, XX ).
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artefacts
actors
glocal issues
Learners
Policy
makers
Educators
Scientists
activities
Entrepreneurs

7. Methodology:
• Inter-region/multi-case qualitative study
• On-line interviews to identify Open Schooling as innovation
ecosystems initiatives in Brazil in partnership with CONNECT
Project

8. Research aims:
• Identifying how to design innovation ecosystems supported by open
schooling in less well represented communities;
• Mapping and observing Open Schooling practices in CONNECT
communities in Brazil;
• Examining drivers and challenges to expand open schooling initiatives as
innovation ecosystems for preparing disadvantaged students to support
sustainable growth – green, digital and social in their local communities.

9. Case Studies
Actors Project-based artefacts Activities
State schools students, teachers,
Researchers, Scientists and Social
Activists (led by University)
WebRadio: Science, Health
and society
Foster students’ authorship
about socio-scientific issues and
school community’s engagement
Suburb-schools teachers, academics
and multi disciplinary researchers
(led by University)
LabLanguages: Multiliteracy Support teachers’ CPD to
integrate Multiliteracies,
Technologies and socio-scientific
issues
Semi-arid schools Teachers,
students, academics, citizens &
policymakers (led by Government)
Teachers’ Digital Skills course Guide teachers digital integration
of pedagogies, technologies and
competences
Rural schools -Youth indigenous
villages, quilombola communities, and
agrarian reform settlements
(led by NGO)
Gender equality programme Empower girls supported through
gender equalities and ICT
Multicultural including indigenous
schools in Amazon and Santa
Catarina (led by University)
Inclusive STEAM Network Strengthen students’ learning
through STEAM and inclusion

10. envolver professores e estudantes de escolas,
cientistas e pesquisadores das universidades e
comunidades locais
Partnerships between teachers, academics,
scientists, entrepreneurs and policy makers
focusing on disadvantaged students.
What are the socio-
scientific that
learners CARE?
What do learners
need to KNOW?
What can they DO
to enhace
science is for me?
envolver professores e estudantes de escolas,
cientistas e pesquisadores das universidades e
comunidades locais
CONNECT offers resources and coaching
supported by the pedagogical model
“Care, Know and Do” for students to
cocreate science actions and increase their
science capital
CONNECT aims to empower the
disadvantaged students with science capital
through fun participatory science and real life
issues that are relevant for them and the
globe (GLOCAL).
Knowledge
Values &Attitudes Skills
ACTORS
ACTIVITIES
ARTEFACT
CO
2
Teachers’ educators
Teacher
Students
Communities / Families
Science Professionals

11. ACTORS
envolver professores e estudantes de escolas, cientistas e
pesquisadores das universidades e comunidades locais
WebRadio
envolver professores e estudantes de escolas, cientistas e
pesquisadores das universidades e comunidades locais
Interviews, storytelling, blog, articles, presentation,
webradio, planing and design, to produce webradio to
integrate science health theme in bio-psycho- social
dimensions of human life. Demystify science and
technology as reachable knowledge for the population,
question the current trends of denial of science and the
advances of knowledge about health and environment.
ACTIVITIES
ARTEFACT
Weekly ZOOM meetings, Social Media, School material
and podcasts that integrates curriculum and daily life
beyond school walls.
(Students in the center) interacting with teachers, biology
researchers, their communities/ families developed a
school Webradio, sharing knowledge about socio-
scientific issues, health and quality of life.
CARE KNOW DO
Miriam Struchiner Brain study
Racism, slaves,
Health and
Biology, Genetics
Science (history
philosophy
Podcasts developed by
students with scientists
and community

12. envolver professores e estudantes de escolas, cientistas e
pesquisadores das universidades e comunidades locais
Undergraduate students, researchers, lecturers, school
teachers (including science) working together to expand
opportunities for multiliteracies in formal, non-formal and
informal settings involving university and school
LabLanguages
Rabello, Cíntia
LabLinguas is a hybrid space to support pre and in-
service teachers in integrating digital technologies into
teaching and learning practices using various learning
technologies and APPS (Metimeter, Padlet, ZOOM).
conference professores e estudantes de escolas, cientistas
e pesquisadores das universidades e comunidades locais
Digital Technologies
Teacher Education
Multiliteracies
Digital Competences
TPACK
Webinars with specialists
Online courses
Workshops
Group discussions
CARE KNOW DO
ACTORS
ACTIVITIES
ARTEFACT
Communication in different languages, online
discussions, presentations, e-portfolios, learning
material production, lesson planning using technologies,
study groups, collaborative creation of digital artifacts.
Mentimeter
Padlet
ZOOM

13. "Open schooling" in rural region of CEARA involves
school teachers – all sciences, educational researchers,
agroecologists, and policymakers supported by
contextualised curriculum and pedagogia of alternance
Souza, Karine
e estudantes de escolas, cientistas e pesquisadores das
universidades e comunidades locais
Collaboration practices, content creation, networks and
mutual support based on the values of citizenship
construction, ethical emancipation, politics and
autonomy. With the production of interactive audio and
video classes as an alternative to remote learning.
Po
CARE KNOW DO
Fieldwork notes
integrated knowledge and
skills from schools and
practice in communities
ACTORS
ACTIVITIES
ARTEFACT
Integral, contextualized and interdisciplinary training,
that values human sciences integrated to natural
sciences in semi-arid rural schools. Philosophical
Podcast to mobilize the dimension of pleasure in
theoretical constructions.
Podcasts
Discussions
Multidisciplinary Projects
Evidence based thinking
Reliability of sources
Phylosophical thinking
Technological
Social and
environmental
issues
Teachers’
Digital Skills
Pedagogy of Alternance
Project based learning
Alternates biweekly lessons
in school with teachers
and in community working
with facilitators in rural zone

14. estudantes de escolas, cientistas e pesquisadores das
universidades e comunidades locais
300 students (13 to 18 years old), 12 teachers from Rural schools
including Youth indigenous villages, quilombola communities, and
agrarian reform settlements (led by NGO), Nurses, psychologists,
Social care professionals and doctors.
Rossana
Domestic violence
against women
Pregnancy
prevention and
teenager maternity
Biology
Science of Human Body
Puberty
CARE KNOW DO
ACTORS
ACTIVITIES
ARTEFACT
Gender equality
programme
• Webconference in GoogleMeet,
• chat,
• audio-visual materials,
• video,
• slides,
Dialogue
Interviews
Knowledge Exchange
• Discussion
• Panel with specialist
• Thematic dialogue
• Sharing experience

15. envolver professores e estudantes de escolas, cientistas e
pesquisadores das universidades e comunidades locais
Communities: Indigenous peoples from the south and north of
Brazil, teachers and head of indigenous schools (“ribeirinha”,
“caboclos”, descendants of indigenous peoples, and traditional
communities, researchers, agents and policy makers
Inclusive STEAM
network
Questionnaire and discussions on the engagement of social actors in
a demand for the development of open schooling projects, based on
RRI, including Digital Inclusion in Education.
Very Limited Internet, 1 Cell Phone for family, few computers in
schools.
envolver professores e estudantes de escolas, cientistas e
pesquisadores das universidades e comunidades locais
Deliberative action that implies how the indigenous community can
contribute to “actively participate in the school and share their
traditional knowledge”. Participation in the construction of new
schools, demarcation and regulation of indigenous lands,
development of a differentiated curriculum, training and qualification
of professionals in indigenous education, supported by scientific
research.
Digital inclusion
Environmental Protection
CARE KNOW DO
ACTORS
ACTIVITIES
ARTEFACT
Sciences
Technologies
Multidisciplinary
Consultation/Deliberation
Projects
citizen science
Robotics and AR
Luziana Quadros Thais Castro

16. Preliminary findings:
Drivers Challenges
Providing opportunities at an early stage for
students to identify scenarios, problems, or issues
that they are interested in; that they care about
Increasing students’ access to “fruitful” learning
opportunities with and without technologies.
Creating flexible systems (virtual or physical) with
and for students to know how to solve issues
supported by (re)search skills with fun.
Supporting students’ retention with active roles
and intrinsic motivation.
Supporting students with activities and contacts for
them to do their work based on knowledge
acquired, make evidence-based decisions, and take
action to develop competences.
Propitiating learners’ attainment with self-
regulated strategies and progress with
competences for sustainability.

17. Final remarks:
• Open Schooling initiatives constitute important actions to increase
student participation and protagonism, enhancing the quality of education
through diversity, equality, equity and inclusion, which are critical aspects
to transform an unequal society such as Brazil.

18. Innovation Ecosystems
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artefacts
actors
glocal issues
Learners
Policy
makers
Educators
Scientists
activities
Entrepreneurs
Cooperative
Learning
Objectives
Learning
Activities
In teams
Dialogic Sócio-Scientific Discourse
Authentic Inquiry with real problems
Open
Educator
Facilitator

19. Alexandra Okada, The OU-UK, ale.okada@open.ac.uk
Miriam Struchner, UFRJ, miriamstru@gmail.com
Cintia Rabello, UFF, cintiarabello@id.uff.br
Karine Pinheiro, SECAD, karine.pinheiro@prof.ce.gov.br
Rossana Moura, NGO, rcomoura@gmail.com
Luziana Quadros, UFSC, cpead.bpi.luziana@gmail.com
Thais Castro, UFAM, thais@icomp.ufam.edu.br
Thank you!