Vamos contar: a communication channel between ibge and brazilian educators

Abstract

This article presents the objectives and format of Vamos Contar, a project by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. In order to fulfill the Institute’s mission “to portray Brazil by providing the information required to the understanding of its reality and the exercise of citizenship”, it is not enough to only produce and disseminate geographic and statistical information. In a country such as Brazil, in which the population faces major difficulties in the educational field, the Institute realized it could play an active role as a contributor to people’s qualification so as to enable them to autonomously read and interpret data concerning their reality. Targeted at providing informative material and teaching resources for the pedagogical work based on data produced by the Institute, Vamos Contar was born as an educational project aimed at communication with teachers.