Social representation of illiterate by alphabetizers of adults / Representação social de analfabeto por alfabetizadores de adultos

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

This research has as main subject teachers who alphabetize youngsters and adults involved in a NGO located at the Cotia District and it is focused on representations that these teachers build regarding the illiterate, with whom they relate on a teaching-learning context. These teachers, to become instructors, complete a structured training program. The first part of this dissertation presents a historical development of adult education in Brazil, up to today. The understanding of the illiterate is remotely associated to a feeling of national shame (encompassing the periods of Colony, First and Second Republics), continuing to a more political conception up to the notion of oppressed with a vocation to Be More (movement for basic education / Paulo Freire), next being linked to a conception of literacy that is empty of critic sense (MOBRAL), reaching what is today viewed as the functional illiteracy. It is highlighted the value given to the quantitative aspects of the programs to eliminate illiteracy. The second part analyses the adopted theoretical and methodological approaches. They include the theory of social representations which, through a psychosociological approach, demonstrates how scientific theories are being incorporated in the intersubjectives relations comprised of social network. These in turn produce other types of theories, known as of common sense, used for communication and behavior construction. Aiming at opening and reviewing the concepts of the illiterate by the teachers alphabetizers of adults who are working at the same institutional premises, procedures to analyze contents were used, with pre established categories, together with the application of questionnaires and the use of words stemmed by the keyword illiterate adult. Data analysis demonstrated that an illiterate concept made up by central elements such as: the one who ignores, presents handicaps, and cannot read the world and by peripheral elements such as: by exclusion, lack of opportunity and initiative, possessing attributes and experience, indicated a background of conceptions of world and education, to a great extent, divergent from those which are the basis for the training of these educator

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psicologia educacional alfabetizadores de jovens e adultos representação social exclusão professores alfabetizadores illiterate, social representation, alphabetizers of youngsters and adults, exclusion, training analfabeto formação

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