O idoso na sala de aula : um novo ator

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The rising of the elderly population in Brazil and in the world is a reality which is product of the significant decrease in mortality and fecundity, consequences of a considerable enhancement of life quality, thus provoking huge population oscillation and consequences which become challenges for society. According to data obtained in this research, in the Federal District, between 1995 and 2000, the elderly population raised 215%. Making an allowance for these figures, this research attempts to investigate, in the conception of the elderly, the significance of learning and its contribution for the construction of a new project of life. This is a qualitative research, which adopted an interpretative-exploratory scope in its analysis and took place in a public school that worked with EJA students. As for the data collection, the method used was a semi-structured interview with fourteen seniors, all above 60 years old and, surprisingly, all women. The responses of the interviews were categorized, via content analysis. The results demonstrate that the seniors had a specific life trajectory, facing situations of exclusion, oppression and marginalization while they sought, in education, possibilities for your emancipation and freedom. The interviews reveal histories of accumulated disadvantages during a lifetime of discrimination and structure inequalities. The return to school, associated to the permanent demand of education, points out to an active elderly, allowing the identification of the intrinsic relations between the process of aging and Education as an opportunity to the reestablishment of projects of life, restoration of personal wills and social reacceptance.

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adult education educaÃÃo continuada educaÃÃo de jovens e adultos lifelong learning educacao de adultos longevity

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