ESCREVIVÊNCIAS E REEXISTÊNCIAS: DISCENTES DA EJA COMO SUJEITOS LEITORES E ESCRITORES

Abstract

This research, called Writings and Re existences: EJA students as readers and writers, was developed within the scope of the Professional Master's Program in Liberal Arts – PROFLETRAS –, at the Federal Bahia University - UFBA. -, and its centrality is to reflect on the teaching of Portuguese language from the perspective of the implementation of Law 10.639/2003 – which amends the LDB and institutes the teaching of Afro-Brazilian history and culture in articles 26a and 79b. The research includes a literacy project focused on the analysis of short stories by Conceição Evaristo from the book Olhos d’água (2016), seeking to uncover the prejudices, racism and sexism still in force in Brazilian society, mainly against women, and especially black women. And, from this path, encourage the authorial writing of texts by students and students of Youth and Adult Education – EJA at the Laura Folly Municipal School, in Dias d’Ávila city. The study takes into account the experiences and literacy of each participating student and aims to provide elements for reflection and analysis that question the condition of racial and gender subordination to which a large part of the Brazilian population is still subjected. Our bet is that, in the interaction in the classroom, other worlds can be built. The research is anchored in theoretical and conceptual contributions: Miguel González Arroyo (2005), Kabengele Munanga (2008), Djamila Ribeiro (2018), Conceição Evaristo (2016), Ana Célia Silva (2004), Brian V. Street (2014), Angela Kleiman (2005), Gabriel Nascimento (2019), Ana Lúcia Silva Souza (2011), Maria Amélia Dalvi (2013), Florence; Carboni (2003), Nilma Lino Gomes (2005), among others. The project development, although partially in the classroom due to the restrictions of the pandemic period, allowed us to reflect on the teaching practice in order to affirm the need for the Portuguese language as a host to be in the classroom as well as the place of feeling good and also feel the owners of our own history, individually and collectively in the search for racial and gender equality.