A Educação de jovens e adultos (EJA): a inclusão social pelos caminhos da leitura

Abstract

This dissertation deals with a didactic study concerning a consideration about reading in the Youth and Adult Education (YAE). We focus the importance of students education with various aspirations and communicative needs, deprived of basic education, who seek the school as an opportunity to be acknowledged and to confirm knowledge and abilities acquired through experiences throughout life, outside school. Motivation for the reading practice turned out to be one of the ways to improve literacy and to contribute to social inclusion. In the relations between language, society and school, it is essential a teaching practice in which the student is offered the opportunity to carry on his education during the required period, in a democratic conception of knowledge. The segment YAE has a Curricular Proposal, based on the National Curricular Parameters, but taking into account the specifities and particulars of this type of teaching. The work with different sorts and types os texts helps interpretation as well as the written output. The challenge-proposal we now present showed us that the constant exercise, reading and writing, is essential for students to participate in the various social practices of the language, by opening a series of knowledges and new meanings, leading them to enjoy and to take advantage of this powerful instrument, READING. As we think over the pedagogic aspects, we make use of our practice as a means to evaluate the performance in view of the teaching-learning process which we try to improve as for the procedures adopted with YAE students.