FROM ABANDONMENT TO RETURN: memories and stories of women students in Youth and Adult Education.
The RighttoEducationandtheTheoryofRecognition: StoriesThatWeavetheDevelopmentofan Exclusive YouthandAdultEducation Center in the Distrito Federal
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, SueliCarneiro, HeleiethSaffioti, 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.