Políticas públicas e direito à educação: a educação de jovens e adultos - EJA para privados de liberdade nos estabelecimentos penais em Manaus

Abstract

This research analyses Youth and Adults Education (Educação de Jovens e Adultos - EJA) for the deprived of freedom in criminal establishments located in Manaus, in the State of Amazonas, during the period of 2015-2016, from the perspective of education rights and public duty in articulation with the directives of public policies for national education and education in prison systems of the country. The goal is to answer the central question of the research: The state policies for EJA, allied with the state policies of Amazonas prison systems, has ensured the right to education to the deprived of freedom in prison units located in Manaus? The studies and the research are situated in the field of public policies, basic education and amazonian challenges which integrate the Line of Education Research, Public Policies and Regional Development of Post-graduate Education Programme - PPGE/UFAM, associated with the Public Policies Research Project, Right to Education and Youth and Adults Education. The research has education rights, public policies and EJA for theoretical referential, with input in the doctrine of rights and fundamentals of the educational field. The investigation brings critical perspective with support in dialectical method using qualitative approach in the analysis of documents and data. In the qualitative analysis, data about prison units from MJ/INFOPEN and SEAP/AM, and data about EJA from SEDUC/AM sources were selected and prioritized. Research results determined the discreet presence of public authority configuring restrict EJA courses and exams offering to the deprived of freedom at prison units located in Manaus. Such conclusion points out the necessity for greater service of basic education schooling to this population, partly from state public power, in order to have detainees conclude basic schooling, and give opportunity to the following of higher education. This signals for the amplification of classrooms or space in prison units to the expansion of EJA course offering. In this direction, state public duty would ensure the development of EJA to a significant contingent of detainees at prison units in Manaus. The results show a distance between the guarantee of education rights and the effective outreach of EJA to all those deprived of freedom who need primary and secondary schooling, by means of courses and exams, in the establishments of prison system.