1 Presentation

In this edition of the Paulo Freire Forum, the activities are basically distributed in three formats: conferences (each with five speakers), culture circles (where registered work will be presented and meetings of specific projects will be held), and cultural activities (programmed especially for the event or suggested by the city's cultural schedule).

Apart from the organizational team, conference speakers and those involved with the cultural activities, we will have two modes of participation:

a) participants without work to present;
b) participants with work to present.

Those who register without work to present will participate in the conferences that take place on September 16 and 17 as well as cultural activities planned throughout the meeting. In this case, they should register before August 1 or before all available spaces are filled (which may occur prior to that date).

Those interested in presenting work, apart from the cultural activities and conferences on September 16 and 17, will be guaranteed participation in the culture circles of September 18 and 19. As well as registering, they should send their papers to be read by the Selection Committee before August 1, 2008. Once his/her work is approved, a person will be able to participate in all event activities (lectures, cultural activities and culture circles).

2 Formatting work for the Culture Circles

Work proposed for the Sixth Meeting of the Paulo Freire Forum must conform to the following specifications:

2.1 Content

a) All work (essays, analyses, scientific articles and/or experiential accounts) should refer to the Freirian legacy and focus on the the Forum's theme, “Globalization, Education and Social Movements: 40 years of the Pedagogy of the Oppressed.”
b) The work should fit into the thematic categories proposed for the culture circles: “Adult Education”, “Popular Education”, “Citizen School” and “Planetary Citizenship.”

2.2 Formatting

All work should comply with the following technical specifications:

a) Characters: up to 30,000 characters with spaces (about ten pages);
b) Margins: 2.5 cm for upper and lower and 3.0 cm for left and right;
c) Font: Times New Roman or Bitstream Charter, both 12 point;
d) Space between lines: 1.5 cm;
e) Alignment: justified.
f) Pagination: pages should be numbered at the upper right margin;
g) Heading:
- Title: capitalized and boldface;
- Authorship: Last name, capitalized, boldface and followed by a comma, hyphen, the acronym of the institution, hyphen and electronic address. Example: PEREIRA, Antônio Pedro – UFSC -- <pedro@ufsc.br>
- Co-authors must follow the same procedure;
h) Abstract: In size 10 font, right below the heading, aligned to the right, an abstract of the work should be inserted with no more than 1000 keystrokes (including characters and spaces);
i) Key words: below the abstract, key words should be listed. These are concepts or categories related to the text (maximum 10 words). Example: reading the world, theatre of the oppressed, rural workers, generative themes. j) Textual norms: Work should be within the textual norms proposed by the APA, ABNT or conform to international textual standards.

3 Sending work

Work should be sent to the Sixth Paulo Freire Forum through our transmission system. To access this tool, enter in your internet navigator the address of forum's website (www.forumpaulofreire.org). After you log in, click on the menu item “Submitting papers” and then on the link at the end of the opening page to submit your work to the Sixth PFF (http://www.paulofreire.org/FPF2008/WebTrabalhoInscricao). The text can be archived and sent with the MS Word® extension “.doc” or “.odt”, OpenOffice.org extension. In case of difficulty, to learn how to save/convert your document to one of these extensions, send an email to suporte@forumpaulofreire.org.

NB: Fill all the required fields when you send your work. Soon after you send it, your material will be directed to the Selection Committee. You will be sent an email about their decision/evaluation subsequently.

4 The Sixth Paulo Freire Forum Library

Work approved for presentation at the Forum or for presentation in the Culture Circles will be downloadable in the Library area, accessible as a menu item on the left of the Forum homepage. These will be organized into thematic groupings and may be copied (downloaded) at any time.

5 Abstracts of the work

Abstracts of work approved and presented at the Sixth International Meeting of the Paulo Freire Forum conferences and as part of the activities, culture circles, etc. will be available in two formats: printed and virtual. The printed document will be provided only to those participants present at the event. The virtual material will be archived on a CD that will be distributed to participants at the event and can be accessed and downloaded by anyone via the internet.

6 Release of author's rights

The Paulo Freire Institute (PFI), coherent with Freirian concepts, believes that sharing knowledge is one of the fundamental paths to social inclusion and the struggle for a better world in the field of knowledge-production, both inside and outside of the university.

From this perspective, the Institute encourages participants at the Sixth International Meeting of the Paulo Freire Forum to share the knowledge they produce through the model of a Creative Commons—a global project without lucrative ends, present in more than 40 countries, which makes flexible licensing for intellectual work available, creating a new for the administration of author's rights.

The project guarantees that creators of content – educators, writers, translators, musicians, filmmakers, photographers, bloggers, journalists and others – allow some use of their work for societal use. Thus, if an author wants his work to be freely circulated, he should choose a license that allows any person to clearly know that (s)he has the right to use the work.

Among the various licenses of the Creative Commons, the PFI opted for the “Attribution—Non-Commercial Use –Creation of Derivative Work Forbidden 2.5 (by-nc-nd)” which authorizes any person or institution to make use of all the texts, providing that:

a) They acknowledge the author.
b) They make no commercial use of it.
c) They don't create derivative work.

For more information about Creative Commons licensing, go to...

a) About Creative Commons License: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/History

b) A licença Atribuição-Uso Não-Comercial-Vedada a Criação de Obras Derivadas 2.5 (by-nc-nd) para leigos: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5

c) A licença jurídica Atribuição-Uso Não-Comercial-Vedada a Criação de Obras Derivadas 2.5 (by-nc-nd): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/legalcode

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