Educação popular em questão - reflexões a partir (e para além) de uma prática

Abstract

This Dissertation, "Popular Education in Subject - Reflections from (and beyond) a Practice", has, as basic presupposition, the conception that popular education is that what identifies with the historical interests of the working class. It is based in the materialistic-historical vision as scientific presupposition, to analyse the politicize-pedagogic práxis of the education and it places the Work as central category. With these premises, it analyzes the experience of Youths and Adults Education of Icapuí, one city in the coast east of the state of Ceará. Such experience was evidenced in the period from 1993 to 1995, in the context of one Municipal Administration identified with the popular demands, presenting, therefore, as priorities the actions implemented in Education and Health sectores. The object of this Dissertation, the Culture Circles of Youths and Adults Education of Icapuí, was constituted in a politicize-pedagogic practice, advised by a team of teachers and students of the Education School of the Federal University of Ceará, including the teachers of the referred Circles. Some questions were evidenced, coinciding with the own hypotheses elencadas before and during this work accomplisbment. One of these questions relates with the importance of one pennanent reflection with the teachers of Icapuí, although it was being verified that, in some extremely important moments to the experience, a consistent teorical-metodological approach and a profound study to a coherent establishement by some proposals have failed. Another important question, what penneated the whole research, refers to the students' evasion. In general tenns, the evasioli fi the Culture Circles of Icapuí was about of 70%. The students, in majority portion, didn't stay frequenting to the classes, what were planned starting from their reality and more immediate interests. It may be concluded that the experience of Icapuí was registered in the list of the proposals of youths and adults education, of popular character; this experience was very important to education of the city and it was purposed to base on the polítical conscience process of its students, with educating Paulo Freire's contribution, but this experience didn't find the wanted resonance due to the high evasion index and their causes.