AS GRADES E A EDUCAÇÃO: UMA ANÁLISE SOBRE A REALIDADE EDUCACIONAL EM DOIS PRESÍDIOS DA REGIÃO SUL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL

Abstract

This dissertation work is a requirement for completion of the masters in social policy of the Universidade Católica de Pelotas/ RS (Catholic University of Pelotas/RS) and it is linked to the line of research: social issues, human rights and access to justice, whichexamines the paradigms in the social and legal context, involving Law, Public Space and Citizenship, with special emphasis oncitizenship participation in the effectuation processes of social and human rights. The present work aims as object of research the educational practices- in terms of education existing and inprospective, in the 5th Penitentiary Region of Rio Grande do Sul, in prisons A and B. Education, object of this study, is contextualizedin a punitive system, which proposes itself legitimate through the promise of (re)insert the individual in society, without going into the motivations for crime. The empirical fact is that the prison population has characteristics and profile, among other things, low schooling, thereby suggesting that providing education is, besides guaranteeing a constitutional right, an important strategy.The work is based on a dense review of the Educating for Freedom Project, created in 2005, by the federal government, to attend educational demand within the prisons environment. This work is grounded in theoretical references from Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault. Ouvir Beyond the theoretical study on education prison, interviews were held with technicians of the prisons, administrators of correctional institutions, prisoners, Regional Education Coordination, Municipal Education Department, penitentiary precinct and teachers. The survey allows us to analyze regional/local realities, though marked out by national guidelines, to produce not only more precise knowledge, but also develop basement, knowledge and strategies for its approach