Resumo

FIALHO, Lia Machado Fiuza; CUNHA, Fernanda Ielpo da  e  VASCONCELOS, José Gerardo. From the campaign “De pé no chão também se aprende a ler” to the professional trajectory of teacher Nair Almeida de Oliveira. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2024, vol.23, e2024-45.  Epub 17-Mar-2025. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v23-e2024-45.

The research aimed to understand, based on the biography of professor Nair Almeida de Oliveira, her professional training process and her role as a teacher in the campaign “De pé no chão também se aprende a ler”, in the city of Natal, in Rio Grande Norte (1961-1964). Based on cultural history theory and oral history methodology intertwined with imagery sources, thematic interviews were used with the teacher (now deceased) and three people who lived with her. Nair Oliveira is an illiterate farmers’ daughter, who studied and became a teacher at the Sister Vitória congregation. She dedicated her life to the education of the poor people and stood out for her leadership in the Rocas neighborhood, especially in the young people and adults education during the campaign period. She emphatically worked to eradicate illiteracy and democratize education in a contextualized way, by incorporating popular culture into teaching processes using Paulo Freire's method.

Palavras-chave : Biography of women; Popular education; Teacher training.

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