Mulheres com idade mais avançada e a Inserção no PROEJA

Abstract

The experience gained with a group of working women, housewives and women with children that after a long time away returned to school having adult education - Youth and Adult Education, the Instituto Estadual de Educação Olavo Bilac (IEEOB), motivated the development of this research. In this work, I wanted to know about the life histories of women who decided to complete their studies through the courses offered by PROEJA at IFF – Instituto Federal Farroupilha of Santa Maria, RS. I researched about the motivations that made them return to take these courses. The study was conducted with five women. I analyzed how they manage their daily activities with school life, seeking to understand the expectations of life created by PROEJA. In this qualitative research, interview, field report, and observation were used as data collection technique. To better understand the motivations of these women I used various images of women, mostly anonymous, and some paper strips with the words: attitude, hardworking, courage, boldness, persistence, overcoming and upbeat as dynamic techniques applied in different meetings in order to provoke a reflection and self-knowledge through the choices made by them. I sought to understand how they articulate their prior knowledge to the information acquired by formal education, taking into account that the PROEJA is a program that seeks the integral formation of students. In this sense, reflections on the role of the teacher as an educator of adults in the lives of these women were made.