Nas trilhas do fazer e do saber a possibilidade de ser: os caminhos do trabalho e da educação na prisão / On the trail of doing and knowing the possibility of being: the ways of work and education in prison

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

This study lies within the State and Educational Policies line of research. It aims to analyze school education in the Education of Youth and Adults modality at secondary level in the Lourdes Estivalete Teixeira State School and work activities at the Odenir Guimarães Penitentiary (OGP). It set out to understand the concepts of education and work for the social actors who make up the research scenario: managers, teachers, prison wardens and full-time detainees, who attend the school and workshops within the OGP, as well as the context in which education and work are integrated into the penitentiary system. The theoretical background for the text are made up of analyses of the State Constitution starting from John Lockes liberalism, the structuring of the neo-liberal current and its classics, based on a critique of this social and political structuring starting from an analysis of the real and its contradictions. Conceptions of Karl Marx are used in order to situate the text at the dawn of historical-dialectical materialism to reveal the meanderings of actions for education and work in the penitentiary system. The research procedures involved the application of mixed questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with the subject of the research, as well as arranged visits and observation in loco. It could be seen that education and work are not allied in the penitentiary system and that the detainees hope that education and work, as well as reducing their sentence, will provide possibilities for constituting their subjectivities or simply occupying their minds, which in practice the services offered do not completely achieve. Managers and civil servants (wardens and teachers) see education and work as a possibility for humanizing the prison space and instruments of socialization of the detainees. However, the social policies for undertaking improvements in the penitentiary system are not clearly and concisely delineated. This happens because the penitentiary system is rooted in the logic of the Neo-liberal State whose priority is market relations and not human relations

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sistema penitenciário politica educacional educação de jovens e adultos trabalho education of youth and adults, penitentiary system, work

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