FROM ABANDONMENT TO RETURN: memories and stories of women students in Youth and Adult Education
Woman. Education. Education of Young people and Adults.
This research aimed to understand, based on the
memories and stories of adult women in Youth
and Adult Education, the meanings attributed to
the return to school life, identifying to what
extent schooling contributes to overcoming
gender inequalities and problems social. The
investigation is qualitative in nature, through
narrative interviews. This method makes it
possible to listen to subjects who have lived a
certain experience, through the reconstruction of
social events from the perspective of the
interviewee. The treatment of the data obtained
was analyzed according to Schutze's proposal.
The main theoretical assumptions are found in
Paulo Freire, Sueli Carneiro, Heleieth Saffioti,
Lélia Gonzales, Angela Davis, Mary Del Priore
and Maria Helena Bastos and Nita Freire. The
research reveals that the historicity of Brazil's
educational process explains the rates of illiterate
women in the current era, added to Brazilian
social characteristics such as inequality, racism,
machismo and sexism, which appear in the life
stories of these subjects, justifying their absence
from education. school in childhood and
adolescence. However, the fight to rescue their
humanizations justifies their presence at school
through Youth and Adult Education.