Jovens e Adultos em Processo de Alfabetização: voz e vida, revelações e expectativas

Abstract

This essay has an objective to investigate the reasons why nine young guys and adults formally started their studies or just restarted it. Taking as a theoreticalmethodological references Bakhtin, Dias and Ginzburg, among other authors, searching for the comprehension of these guys life histories, better saying, to listen to their voices, to beyond of a point-of-view demanded by the official speech, which considers the illiteracy as something bad that should be cut in the beginning. We discuss the literacy concepts, besides the way to learn to read and write, that matters for the research, based mainly on Soares, Kleiman and Goulart. The study is carried out in a qualitative character: the empirical material was collected by the conversations,questionnaires, speech/narrative produced in situation of a focal group. The meaning of the literacy/educational background were categorized from a dialogue with Melo, searching for a inclusive listening of the priorities pointed out by the formal primary learners. The literacy components argued into Tolchinsky bases, showed us the necessities of the primary learners in the literacy process which considers the reality in which they live and also their requests for the several social practices from reading and writing matters.