Learning in learning environments

In this paper we problematise learning from the point of view of the students at a public school in the municipality of Rio Grande/RS/Brazil. In 2011 the school opted to change its operating dynamics by transforming conventional classrooms into Learning Environments in which students have access to a greater diversity of resources and interaction with their peers is permanent motivating students to establish relationships between school knowledge their lives and the world. In this school it is the students who move from one environment to another; every two hours the teachers remain in the classroom. In order to find out how the students learn in this new environment we asked various questions and used the Collective Subject Discourse (CSD) as a method of analysis which allowed us to construct the following collective discourses: Learning 'yesterday' in classrooms Learning 'today' in Learning Environments and Learning with teaching materials. Analysing the discourses enabled us to understand that work carried out in collective and challenging environments changes learning through freedom of action expression and respect for the other as a legitimate other in coexistence.