Contribuições à Educação de Jovens e Adultos na área prisional através do lócus ambiental: curso de agentes de reflorestamento

Abstract

This work had as its object the study of the experience of professional qualification at the level of initial training, a university extension course offered by UFRRJ, and directed by individuals in a situation of deprivation of liberty. It is a partnership with the State Company for Water and Sewage of Rio de Janeiro - CEDAE, aiming replanting riparian forests Macacu river, which has occurred since 2007. We attempted to verify how the actions of this project contributed to the process of socialization of the subjects involved. Based on the conceptual critical environmental education, and we performed a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with graduates of the course and it was found, using the technique of content analysis, the changes perceived self, the construction of new values affective and social recovery of self-esteem and identification with the environmental area and the new profession. For the analysis we used the theoretical foundations in the interface areas of the proposal, namely: Environmental Education, the Vocational, Education and Youth and Adult Correctional beyond.