Abstract:

This summary is an account of the advances of a training experience of 22 teachers and managers developed by research professors in Ecoformation and Creativity of the International Network of Creative Schools - RIEC, at the Universidad de Barcelona, Spain. It is a program organized based on the principles that guide RIEC and RIEC Brasil, incorporated into a formative proposal adequate to meet the demands indicated by the CRESCER Institute, from Itajaí-SC, Brazil. This training proposal is aimed at the formation of ecologically responsible citizens, focusing on the development of behavior such as cooperation, responsibility, participation, autonomy and respect. It is a training course based on the presuppositions of Education from Life and to Life. The CRESCER is a Non Governmental Organization founded in 2003, which develops educational projects in the school counterparty with students of the public school system, focusing on social inclusion and personal, academic and professional development. In order to develop a teaching practice aimed at the development of young people's behavior, skills and competences. Since 2016 CRESCER has been investing in continuing teacher training through partnerships with the Universidade do Vale do Itajaí (UNIVALI), RIEC, municipal and state Education, schools and the Business Association of Itajaí. Continuing education is based on the proposal for the development of creativity and complexity (Morin, 2010; Pujol, 2015; Torre & Zwierewickz, 2009), whose theoretical and methodological assumptions are complex thinking, transdisciplinarity and eco-formation. The partial results of the use of this innovative and creative approach to teacher education, based on a transdisciplinary proposal, contextualized and problematizing, point to the development of autonomy, critical and creative reflection and, consequently, the youth protagonism of students and teachers. This training experience has pointed to the valorization of the creative potential of managers and teachers of CRESCER, through strategies that facilitate access to the theoretical bases guiding Creative Schools, as well as support to the elaboration, systematization, development and diffusion of transformative initiatives , linked to transdisciplinary and ecoforming education and to the development of more sustainable actions and ways of life.

Keywords:

Autonomy, Creativity, Youth Education.