Educação em direitos humanos para além das grades: cartas pedagógicas em prisões

Abstract

The prison, created as a device of enclosure and social control, is also a place of rights violations. The field of human rights has developed studies and research that have guided reports-denunciations at the same time that it has proposed humanizing policies for prison administration. The challenges in the field of Human Rights Education have ensured, in the spaces of deprivation and restriction of freedom, the construction of knowledge and educational practices directed to a liberating perspective. The research adopted a critical perspective of human rights and prison education based on Freirean references, as a way to unveil in the gaps the possibilities of an emancipating education beyond the bars. The present study is the result of a decade of experience as an educator in prison education in the State of Paraíba, finding and building spaces of creation and resistance. The research aims to understand the contribution of education in prisons from the point of view of human rights, from the analysis of pedagogical productions created in the prison classroom, focusing the investigator's look on the cognitive process experienced by the students in the enclosed classes, valuing their meanings and forms of expression. To this end, we carried out a qualitative research that focused on the content analysis of the pedagogical letters. It is hoped that this research work will contribute to the understanding of the crossing of Human Rights in Education in Prisons (DHEP).