História, memória e vivências: A EJA no norte de Minas Gerais 1940-1960

Abstract

This work presupposes to present the History, Memory and Experiences research: The EJA in the North of Minas Gerais 1940-1960, which objective was to investigate the local history, retracing the history in the memory of the knowledge and practices of seven literacy teachers, analysing the context, the place, the space, their difficulties, problems, strengths, and especially the meaning of the craft as an adult literacy teacher in the period of 1940 to 1960. It sought to delimit initially the historical period, identifying, describing and analysing the knowledge and practices mobilized by the literacy teachers in the teaching-learning process of adults. As well as the ways these literacy teachers used the teaching method in the conduct of literacy activity, given the need for acquisition of the alphabetic code and the development of reading skills and comprehension of texts. In addition, it intended to understand how the US literacy teachers preceded in adult tutoring, considering the difficulties of that reality to the knowledge of their occupation and the professional know-how. This study presents itself in the field of Youth and Adult Education, where the focus was the thematic oral history in the North of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The period of this research takes us back to memories of numerous levies standards that were and are unhealthy for students, including those that justify the many prejudices that somehow foreshadowed the collapse of some social barriers, which showed that these and so many other promises to adults in the study period were strategies to perpetuate the power of a group. The results of the research show how the trajectories of these educators were built, marked by political and pedagogical restraint at a time when the wilderness of northern Minas Gerais was considered a region of \"habitual illiteracy resistance\", as \"rude and undisciplined, helpless and excluded from the benefits, or why not say, abandoned to its own fate in relation to various aspects, especially in relation to adult education. Evidence that indicates how much this area is marked by the attempt to overcome the different forms of existing discrimination and exclusion in our society. Therefore this research led us to the realization that the surveyed literacy teachers not only created job alternatives or even learned from their own experiences, but mainly enrolled themselves in a tradition, trying to rescue ties with the EJA, as tributaries, maintainers and retreaters of a tradition.