The beauty and enchantment of Popular Education: narratives and stories of popular educators from the Federal District
Popular Education; Youth and Adult Education, Paulo Freire, Narrative interview, training of popular educators
The general objective of this master's research is to understand the challenges of Popular Education in the Federal District based on the life stories of Freirean popular educators who work in the literacy of young people, adults and the elderly. In addition, it has specific objectives to situate, historically, in time and space, Popular Education and its interface with Youth and Adult Education in Brazil and in the Federal District from the context of redemocratization; to identify Freire's concepts of awareness and dialogue present in the memories and trajectories of popular educators; and to analyze the constitution of popular educators through their oral history. The justification for this study lies in the Brazilian social reality, where there are 9.6 million people who cannot read and write and belong to the working class who have not had their subjective public right to education assured. Popular Education engages with the reality of these people, recognizing their knowledge and experiences as well as their challenges and everyday issues. The pedagogical practice is built with the popular subject and is not limited to teaching literacy, but developing critical awareness and autonomy of the subject aiming at individual, social and political transformation to overcome the highlighted problems. As theoretical support, we have Brandão, 1986, 2003, 2008; Catelli, 2024; Costa, Oliveira and Machado, 2019; Freire, 2003, 2017, 2022; Haddad, 2000, 2019; Mejia, 2014, Paludo, 2012, 2015; Paulo, 2018; Torres and Nascimento, 2021; Vieira, 2000. To achieve the objectives, the methodology used will be qualitative in nature through narrative interviews, using oral history with a thematic focus as a methodology, whose references are in Alberti, 2004; Bragança, 2016; Meihy,2002; Thompson 2002. This method allows the voice of popular educators in the Federal District, who became Freirean educators, allowing us to understand their trajectories, challenges and learnings during the period of redemocratization of the country, based on their memories. The popular educators are linked to two popular movements, which are CEPAFRE, in the Administrative Region of Ceilândia, and CEDEP, in