Abstract

DONEGA, Magda Sílvia  and  MELLO, Maria Aparecida. Function of Youth and Adult Education in prisons. Educ. Puc. [online]. 2020, vol.25, e204630.  Epub June 17, 2020. ISSN 2318-0870.  https://doi.org/10.24220/2318-0870v25e2020a4630.

Youth and Adult Education aims to guarantee three functions: the restorative, equalizing and qualifying. In the context of prisons, such education includes other aspects that are articulated to the functions of Basic Education, discussed in this paper, based on the following investigation questions: Which are the functions assigned by law to Basic Education in prisons and how does the scientific area discuss the education of youth and adults offered to people in deprivation of liberty? The scientific research accomplished by the researchers: Marc de Maeyer, Elionaldo Julião, Elenice M. C. Onofre, Roberto da Silva and Augusto Thompson helped us to answer the initial question. The theorical fundamentals of Adult Education was supported by Paulo Freire’s and for the understanding and the analysis of the teaching and learning processes we based ourselves on the Lev Vigotsky’s Cultural-Historical Theory. The results indicated that Brazilian Basic Education in the prisons is influenced by the prison culture that creates obstacles to the educational practices and, at the same time, the confinement condition expands its functions. Basic Education in prisons can achieve the following functions: to place people deprived of their liberty in humanization processes, to instrumentalize them, to reconcile them with their studies, to strengthen their sef-esteem, to put them in touch with references from outside the prison, forming active citizenship, insertiing them in continuing education processes; this is also an opportunity for the (re)construction of their life plans

Keywords : : Basic education; Youth and Adult Education; Prisons; Cultural-historical theory.

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