Educação entre celas e grades: vivências e práticas pedagógicas na cadeia feminina de Cajazeiras - PB.

Abstract

This paper analyzes the implementation of prison education in the female detention in Cajazeiras (Brazil), focusing on the pedagogical perspectives of educating for freedom, and investigates how the theoretical and practical methods that advocate the education developed in the female detention delineate pedagogical perspectives of educating for freedom. This article is a qualitative and exploratory approach, with the use of semistructured interview techniques, questionnaires, observation and categorization of simple thematic analysis of the data obtained. The research is based on Maeyer (2013); Davis (2018); Foucault (2014); Freire (2015); Arendt (2011), Julião (2016); Onofre (2015); Silva (2018); among other theorists. During the investigation, it was discussed the naturalization of prisons, which happens in a naive way, being the result of the action of the State as a structural and security instance of education and training systems for citizenship. This action bears the mark of an intentional "failure," which hides the issues and contexts that lead to incarceration. If these issues were resolved politically and socially, incarceration would be useless. So, this paper reflects on the crises that prison education faces, driven by the cultural and political context, and on the importance of the realization, as a right, of an education as a practice of freedom for persons deprived of their liberty. The paper investigates the remission of sentence for study, as it happens in the female chain of Cajazeiras, and asks if this is an advance, especially when this mechanism is not an essential element in the composition of the curriculum. The research considers the educational practice in the political dimension, because human action is political, so the educational practice is the way, it is the possibility of dimensioning the awareness of the subjects. Finally, this article addresses the importance of EJA (Youth and Adult Education) in the provision of education for inmates. The contents, the pedagogical planning and the curriculum were some of the dimensions investigated in the school of the prison. It is important that the education offered in the chain is linked to the presuppositions of an education accessible to all. Such education must be of quality and understood as the practice of freedom, as an inalienable right of persons, even those persons deprived of their freedom.