A contação de histórias na Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA)

Abstract

This final course work, entitled Storytelling in Youth and Adult Education (EJA), aims to understand storytelling as a relevant teaching practice for the formation of readers in the field of youth and adult literacy, from the perspective of Popular Education (EP). The pedagogical exercise of storytelling is significant insofar as, through it, students are able to critically read the world around them, learn more about themselves and write another world in which they can live. The act of storytelling should be a recurring practice in the formal education space, as well as the reading of stories, mediated by the voice of the educator, a contributing being in this development process. This work highlights that telling a story is different from reading a story, but in the school institution, there is space for both practices, since both complement each other. Regarding the methodological basis, the research uses a qualitative approach, of a bibliographic nature, based on the productions of authors such as: Freire (1987, 1996), Fávero (2013) and Pimentel (1995), among others, prioritizing discussions in the political and sociocultural scenario of Brazil, between 1930-1964, a period to which the consolidation of Popular Education is linked from the context of EJA.