A realidade educacional dos pescadores da Praia Ponta de Matos em Cabedelo: navegando nas velas do analfabetismo

Abstract

Illiteracy is a reality that plagues the country and leaves marks of exclusion in the life of the people that live this situation. Over the years, the denial of the right to a full education has produced illiterates inside the school and nurtured a class division that perpetuates itself and makes new victims: with jobs, duties and right addresses, but that need to be changed. The objective of this work is to analyze the educational reality of fishermens of the beach in Ponta de Matos in Cabedelo. The methodology applied in the research with the 17 fishermen has a qualitative character and uses as instrument the techniques of observation and structured research. The theoretical references accepted in the research were: Freire (2013/2014), Arroyo (2009/2017), Furtado (2008/2015), and Ventura (2002), among others. In the analysis it was possible to verify that more than fifty percent of the fishermen interviewed are illiterate and that the absence of schooling contributed to the option of precarious work that causes restrictions in their lives in the social and economic sphere. In this conception, the school presents itself as a place of construction of knowledge that can support the formation of the autonomous and ethical subject to act in the formation of the new society.