O Centro de Referência de Educação Municipal de Idosos de Itaboraí: política pública de direito à educação

Abstract

Youth and adult education (EJA) is, according to the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education n. 9.394/96, a modality of basic education. CEB/CNE Opinion n. 11/2000 establishes that EJA, as a modality, has three functions: qualifying, equalizing and repairing. Regarding the reparative function, the EJA realizes the restoration of the right to education and the recognition of the ontological equality of every human being, unveiling inequalities that transform social goods and rights into privileges of some, to the detriment of others. This dissertation aims to understand the performance, as a public policy of EJA, of the Reference Center for Municipal Education of the Elderly of Itaboraí (CREMII). CREMII is dedicated to the basic schooling of people over 50 years of age, who have not had access or conditions to remain in school throughout their lives, relating it to training activities in workshops and work with the body, through physical education. For the development of the research, formulations on the reality of elderly subjects and the most recent history of youth and adult education in Itaboraí, the municipality where CREMII is located, were traversed, seeking to understand the relationship between the political action of the modality in the municipal network and elements of creation, functioning and political-pedagogical conceptions that underpinned the creation of the Center. The research also investigated the documentation that underpins the conception of education for young people, adults and the elderly that supports the creation and maintenance of CREMII as a public education policy, seeking evidence of whether the proposal originally elaborated still materializes today.