Analisando a efetivação da Educação para Jovens e Adultos (EJA) na Colônia Penal Agrícola do Município de Sousa/PB.

Abstract

This study aimed to discuss Youth and Adult Education (EJA) in the Agricultural Penal Colony in the municipality of Sousa / PB. For this purpose, we conducted discussions and analyzes about the historical process of the Prison System from antiquity to the modern era, punishments, we also debate about the Brazilian prison system and present the locus of our research, as well as the data collected in the exploratory research carried out with the inmates and teachers. who teach EJA at that institution. It was an exploratory field and bibliographic research where we used authors, websites and laws that address the subject. The research subjects corresponded to six inmates who are in a regime in the said Agricultural Penal Colony and three professors who work at the institution. However, EJA has thirty-six students enrolled and six teachers / as, however, only six inmates agreed to participate in the research and three teachers. The data collection was based on a research script with open questions. Data analysis was carried out using the content analysis technique, following all its parameters. The data revealed that prisoners consider EJA as an opportunity to contribute to the remission of the sentence, in addition to enabling them to continue their training, opening their minds to understand and perceive aspects of reality and life previously unknown. The teachers consider that EJA is also an opportunity for the growth of prisoners, but pointed out that there are issues that should be better analyzed, such as the lower number of hours devoted to regular education, expansion of the use of materials that can contribute to the improvement of teaching and learning, as well as a better investment in the infrastructure conditions of the teaching environment. That said, EJA is of paramount importance for the human and pedagogical growth of the students of the Penal Colony, however it needs a greater apparatus and commitment from the federated entities, so that it can really be configured as a strategy of resocialization of the graduates.