The application of the United Nations Organization Simulation Model as a teaching practice at Canto dos Pássaros School (RJ)

a teaching experience in student development

Abstract

Pedagogical practices introduce a greater interaction between student – teacher and student – student in the teaching-learning process. Since, learning, as a liberating process, is done in the horizontal construction of multiple sabers. The exercise of the pedagogical activity of United Nations Organization (UN) simulation, or Model United Nations (MUN), consists of simulating with students from Elementary School Final Years and High School, meetings, summits and/or assemblies of the UN, with themes involving a political-environmental agenda of global scope, more that cross several scales. In the end, students play roles such as: Journalists, Delegates, International Observers and Mediators. It is worth noting that during the simulations, the participants carry out in-depth research on the countries they represent and the topics under discussion, which improves their argumentation, communication and negotiation skills, considering that they seek among the negotiations the resolution of a conflict and the formalization of a document of general guidelines. As an objective, this article seeks, through an experience report, to highlight the importance of UN simulation exercises as an instrument for the development of pedagogical practices and social development, since themes that dialogue with social, political, and environmental issues are debated and studied. As a result, Canto Model United Nation (CMUN) showed enormous potential among students as a concrete bridge between theory and practice and a democratization of education, being them the protagonists, from reading, oratory and writing, empirically developing their skills, which we find described in educational laws.