Educação popular : uma leitura a partir dos direitos humanos das mulheres

Abstract

This research discusses the trajectory of women organized in popular neighborhood groups, having as its object the fight for rights in a perspective of the affirmation of human rights for women in their daily lives. Its general objective is to understand how the popular educational action of the SEDUP Association with women, in its interface with the Education in Human Rights, influences the autonomy and expansion of a culture of human rights for women. The specific objectives were to map the educational activities developed with women in the lowincome communities of Guarabira; to verify to what extent the informative/formative activities developed with the groups strengthen their social participation; and to observe if the human rights themes present in the educational activities contribute to the expansion of a culture of rights for women. The study was carried out with women from the working-class neighborhoods of Mutirão, Nordeste and Conjunto Nossa Senhora Aparecida of the city of Guarabira in Paraíba in the period from 2018 to 2022. It is guided by the perspective of historical and dialectical materialism as a method of investigation and analysis of social reality, as suggested by Saffioti (1992), when investigating the trails of the dialectical method and the particularities of oppression and exploitation of women, warning us about patriarchy, capitalism, and racism. This is a qualitative research, carried out with twenty women belonging to the Women's Collectives. It is supported theoretically and methodologically in the field of studies and researches of feminist social movements, reflecting with the thought of women's and feminist movements and the historical struggle of women for rights in Brazil in interface with popular education and education in human rights, dialoguing with the discussions of Teles (1999), Ávila (2005; 2009; 2016), Zenaide, Dias and Ferreira (2016), Freire (1980; 2006; 2011) and Moreira (2021). Data collection was carried out through semi-structured interviews, focus group, observation of the formative processes and analysis of documents from the reports of the meetings and popular education practices of the Associação Serviço de Educação Popular (SEDUP). As a result of the research, I conclude that the educational work with the groups generates impacts in the lives of women regarding their critical awareness of the world, reverberating in their participation in public spaces for the guarantee and expansion of rights, having as reference the agendas of women's struggles, considering the reality of their communities. We conclude, therefore, through this dissertation that the educational actions carried out by the SEDUP Association in these years under study have awakened a participative culture among women, provoking their protagonism in the guaranteeing of human rights that reflect in their daily lives and in their citizenship.