EXPERIENCE REPORT: FAST GIRLS IN THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL SECTOR

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.5585825070512

• Palavras-chave: Education, Girls, Women, Science, Graduation

• Keywords: Education, Girls, Women, Science, Graduation

• Abstract:

  This study presents an experience report by undergraduate students who took part in the "Fast Girls in the New High School" project, developed in 2022 as an evolution of the Fast Girls Extension Project, created in 2013. The main objective of the initiative is to promote access and permanence of young women in Higher Education, with a special focus on their insertion and leading role in the areas of Exact Sciences, Engineering and Technology. Acting as monitors in extension activities, both as scholarship holders and volunteers, the future teachers not only broaden their pedagogical training, but also contribute to strengthening and expanding the project's activities. Based on this practical experience, the paper proposes a critical reflection on the impact of the initiative, highlighting how the integration between different areas of knowledge, especially with the contribution of the Human Sciences, enhances the results achieved. The project's methodology in undergraduate courses aims to encourage the development of participatory strategies in the teaching of subjects in the area of exact sciences, especially when aimed at young people who face structural barriers of gender, race, social class or connection to the public school system. The focus on undergraduate courses has made it possible to articulate diverse knowledge, stimulating transdisciplinary debate and concretely encouraging the presence of women in spaces historically marked by male predominance.