Social occupational therapy and anti-oppression educational spaces at universities: a report from outreach workers at the Metuia Cerrado nucleus

Abstract

The present work seeks to expose, through an experience report, the reflections and learnings lived in the outreach project Metuia Cerrado during the year 2023, from the perspectives of outreach students. The project, which works with the theoretical-methodological framework of social occupational therapy, promoted five thematic workshops with university students, namely: Memes, Vogue, Baile Charme, Theater of the Oppressed and a Workshop in the Association of Parents and Friends of the Exceptional (APAE), the latter with the public marked by intellectual disability and crossed by capacitacy. The workshops are designed to create environments of resistance, reception and expression that help to build processes of social emancipation and critical thinking. In addition, the project also contributed to the academic training of outreach workers and the promotion and deepening of themes focused on the social area, assistance and demonstrating that occupational therapists are professionals who can articulate these demands through their actions and activities and that the university, in partnership with other network services, can be a space for these joints, essential for overcoming paradigms still allocated in the university environment. It is concluded that they were important actions to promote the construction of more diverse and inclusive actions, based on the work of social occupational therapy.