1. Newman and Holzman´s inspiring discussion of Vygotsky as a Revolutionary Scientist to the work developed by the Research Group LACE
Maria Cecilia Magalhães – PUC-SP
Wellington de Oliveira- FAINC
Rosemary Hohlenwerger Schettini- FEDUC

2. This Presentation Aim
Focusing on Newman and Holzman´s inspiring discussion of Vygotsky as a Revolutionary Scientist to the work developed by the Research Group LACE projects conducted by the Brazilian Research Group Language in Activities in School Contexts - LACE coordinated by Magalhães and Liberali, since Based on the writings of Vygotsky and on a Critical- Collaborative Intervention Research methodology.

3. Central Issue
Building communities between researchers and school participants to break the rigid hierarchy that traditionally organizes the relationships in schools, as well as between the school and the social communities around.

4. Critical-Collaborative Perspective
The movement of reality comprehension, analysis and transformation through reflection based on the inseparability of theory and practice, the real needs of participants and the actions that enable different viewpoints to be developed. Critical Collaboration relies on modes of action that involve sharing responsibility for the whole. Each person becomes responsive for the process of their own and others´ actions and for the development of the group. It implies in creating contradictions crisis as central to the foundations for the new.

5. Central Concept: Creating Performatory ZPD
Creating performatory zpds means creating a collaborative- critical way for participants from different economical and literacy levels, and from school hierarchy in order to work collectively to create environments for language organization that might involve participants in speaking as performance and speaking as narration (Vygotsky as a Marxist dialectical materialist methodologist, and on Newman and Holzman (2010, 2014) and Holzman (2009), Holzman, 2010).

6. Global Perspectives on Learning and Development with Digital Video-Editing Media
An international project (University of Crete, Free University Berlin, Institute of Education/University of London, Jawaharlal Nehru University , Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Pontifical University Catholic de Sao Paulo);
DIGIT-M-ED Brazil is involved in conducting a critical-collaborative intervention research in municipal and state schools as a partnership organized as a university- school-community for a joint production of curricular proposals that might reorganize the State of São Paulo public schools curriculum.
- The project is conducted with literacies learning and development with the critical-collaborative participation of children and young students, their teachers, coordinators and other participants from school community. The use of multiple media aims to encourage the participation of individuals in the production of curricular proposals that enable teaching-learning processes and engage students with the needs of their contexts and a variety of contents, and with citizenship constitution.

7. An Elementary School Literacy Project - LEDA - Reading and Writing in Different Areas;
A teacher education project as a community building between a research group and the school participants to the production of a critical collaborative context among all participants. It aimed at creating contexts so that the school practitioners’ could systematically visualize and understand their classroom actions, analyze them as related to classroom literacy video watching, theoretical texts reading and relate practice to theory. It is central to the project the performance of classroom scenes to enhance the possibilities to speak in critical ways to understand and transform their classroom action. It was a project to deal with literacies leaning and development in an elementary school aimed at critically analyze students´ maintenance of ​​reading and writing scores in the evaluations of SARESP (System of School Assessment of the State of São Paulo) in a school located in a city in the outskirts of the Greater São Paulo . Students come from low literacy homes.

8. The construction of the College of the Educator – director
A dream of the Research Group LACE, Rosemary Hohlenwerger Schettini turned as reality- to organize a College to build communities to students to offer a critical learning and development environment to students who could not pay the private good colleges or could not enter the free public schools. The focus is on citizenship constituition and transformation.