Sentidos da escolarização para idosos da educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

The meaning receive meanings endowed with cultural influences attributed individually by the subjects to the various elements of daily life. Given this, this research asked about the following question: What meanings are attributed by the elderly in Youth and Adult Education schooling? The objectives were: - to analyze the meanings attributed by seniors, students of cycle I, to schooling; identify, from the perspective of the research subjects, the relations of the contents learned in the classroom with the daily experience of the subjects; understand the place of images in the teaching and learning process on the life of these subjects; and characterize the meanings attributed to the school of yesterday and today. The main authors of the study were: Verón (2005), Rey (2003, 2007), Vygotsky (1984), Jardilino (2014), Soares (1999), Tfouni (2002), Freire (1989), Carlos and Ireland (2015). The methodological approach was the qualitative research, the type being exploratory and field research. The data collection instrument consists of a semi-structured interview. The results indicate that the meanings attributed to schooling by the elderly participants is the acquisition of reading and writing for various purposes, such as having independent access to information utilizing the reading the bible. Other results presented also determined that there are no relationships between classroom study and daily life, making it difficult to understand these contents; The use of images as a didactic resource are not used in the classroom, although it is configured as an important pedagogical resource. The meanings attributed to schooling are often associated with the affection between them and the teachers. Finally, it is considered that the practice of teaching and learning in Youth and Adult Education could be enhanced with the use of images and from a contextualized teaching, such as pedagogical resources would favor in the learning of the subjects.