Narratives of Prison Education Students about Their Life Projects

Nedli Magalhães Valmorbida,Juan José Mouriño Mosquera,Claus Dieter Stobäus

doi:10.4236/ce.2016.712172

Abstract

This article contains reflections by the authors about the Doctoral Thesis of “Valmorbida”, and reflects on projects, educational and work opportunities that students of the State Center for Youth and Adults-NEEJA Alaor Antonio Terra are a school located in Central Prison of Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil, who work as a Prison educational System. They talk about their desires for when they leave the prison system, looking for opportunities and speaking about how their school experiences can be a facilitator of these expectations, by providing the education and supporting the students’ perspective. They receive the proposition: What are the projects for your life and in what instances can the school assist you in achieving this task? Thirty-nine students take part in this research, covering their alphabetization and Middle School levels. The responses will be worked with Content Analysis. Participant students are referred as subject, part spontaneously task that is carried out in the classroom as conversation and redactions, set in a pedagogical proposal.

Highlights

The present article intends to verify how the Prison Education School can promote, coordinate and facilitate the expectations of individuals who are temporarily deprived of freedom in confinement
Consistent students’ expectations of the State Center for Youth and Adult Education—NEEJA Alaor Antonio Terra, a school located in the Central Prison in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil, with the real possibilities of the labor market can constitute one of the tasks of Prison Education School
When we look at the prison system, this universe of exclusions that houses these subjects, think of these include possibilities brings benefits to their possibilities, but think of to harmonize them to the surrounding reality is immediate and essential task for that, he left the prison grounds, do not face with the most terrible reality, yet: the exclusion of their projects

Summary

Introduction

The present article intends to verify how the Prison Education School can promote, coordinate and facilitate the expectations of individuals who are temporarily deprived of freedom in confinement. It argues that the prospects that relate to school, to constitute this segregation environment, the hope of enabling subjects alternatives that. Narratives of Prison Education Students about Their Life Projects. We will use the terminology Prison Education, known as Inmate Education, Correctional Education, “Within Walls School”, or Behind Bars (Valmorbida, 2016). Consistent students’ expectations of the State Center for Youth and Adult Education—NEEJA Alaor Antonio Terra, a school located in the Central Prison in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil, with the real possibilities of the labor market can constitute one of the tasks of Prison Education School.

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