Educação de Jovens e Adultos: importância dessa modalidade de ensino no sistema prisional

Abstract

This work of research consists on the investigation of the importance that the Education of Youth and Adults presents inside of the Brazilian the imprisionment system. The work reports the possibilities that the education presents to the subject s who are deprived of freedom once many of them were excluded socially and culturally because they did not have access to the educational system. This research, of a qualitative approach, configures itself on an interpretative perspective. The participant subjects are 36 prisoners who are accomplishing penalty on a closed system inside a presidium situated on the north of Paraná and there they go daily to class. The process of investigation happened during the period of classes aiming to understand how the students perceive themselves on the school context and what is their view facing the chance of returning to the studies. Based on the theoretical referential of Paulo Freire, turned to the popular demands and to the education of youth and adults that from a popular methodology, that frees and emancipates, aiming the education as practice of freedom, and considering the analysis of the reports of the prisoners and the achieved results, it becomes evident that to offer schooling inside the penal system it is to make of this space a way of transformation, allowing the subjects who are there to come out of their condition, to improve their lives and to draw new ways when they will be free. On this context education is perceived as a right to all, independently of being or not without freedom. Summarizing, the school in the prison´s system needs to offer an education to man´s individual and social liberation.