Abstract

LARANJEIRA, Rómina Mello. Trajectories, memories and legitimation of literate lifes in adult education. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2017, vol.31, n.62, pp.1249-1280.  Epub Mar 09, 2021. ISSN 1982-596X.  https://doi.org/10.14393/revedfil.issn.0102-6801.v31n62a2017-p1249a1280.

This article presents an analysis of ways of reconstructing literate identities of adults enrolled in the Recognition of Prior Learning Processes, within the context of the New Opportunities Initiative (2005-2010) in Portugal. Employing the New Literacy Studies (STREET, 1984; BARTON; HAMILTON, 1998) as a framework, this article seeks to analyse the life history fragments that concern the literacies of two subjects and to characterize the literate identities lifelong buildup. From these fragments’ analysis, objects, times, spaces and functions of the literate practices of the subjects emerged. The result highlights that those literacies assume, on the one hand, new ways of being within the life history the subjects write as part of the recognition process; on the other hand, the interview allows for and indeed becomes a moment of (re)interpretation of their lived literacies. As the subjects discursively validate their life paths, the recognition process is seen as having made a valid contribution in the reconstruction of the literate identities.

Keywords : Literacy; Identities; Life histories; Adult education and training.

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