School to Free? Education Policies in Prison, Resocialization and Ideas on Social Reintegration.
Reeducating; Education in prison; Education for Youth and Adults; Social reinsertion; Ethnography.
The research aims to understand how the inmates1 who study at the “Escola Penitenciária Educação que Liberta”, perceive the education undertaken in prison, to know if they believe that the education received will contribute to their resocialization process. This school is located at the Silvio Hall de Moura Agricultural Recovery Center - CRASHM, in Santarém - PA. I prepared a text with an ethnographic orientation, anchored in bibliographic research, document analysis and field research. Initially, bibliographic research was carried out to understand the studies on the research object, based on authors who deal with education in prison, such as Julião (2007; 2009; 2013; 2016; 2017; 2020) and Onofre (2007; 2012; 2013) ). Institutional documents, legal documents, international and national, which defend education as a universal right, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), United Nations Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (1955), Federal Constitution (1988) were analyzed. , the Law of Directives and Bases of National Education (1996), After the authorization, issued by the State Department of Penitentiary Administration - SEAP, to carry out the academic research in July 2022, I started the field research, with participant observation work . The data collection instruments used were the “field diary”, semi-structured and unstructured interviews, questionnaires, and conversation circles. The “field diary” was a fundamental instrument for the organization of the research, in it I recorded the class moments chronologically. The semi-structured and unstructured interviews made it possible to collect information about the school and prison environment, with employees from SEDUC and SEAP. The “Socioeconomic Questionnaire” allowed me to trace the socioeconomic profile of the inmates. The “Pedagogical Questionnaire” made it possible for me to know the perceptions and expectations of the inmates regarding education. With the conversation circle I had the opportunity to listen to the reeducated who are in the literacy process. With the data collected, I performed the tabulation, to organize and understand the information, so, later, I will carry out the theoretical analysis in more depth. The research results reveal that, for the inmates who study at the “Education that Liberates Penitentiary School”, education is indeed an important instrument of resocialization. They often associate education with life change, and consider the work of teachers essential to motivate them to continue studying.