“Papagaio véio não aprende a falar” - a experiência da jornada de alfabetização do Maranhão no Município de Santa Filomena

Abstract

This Course Conclusion Paper seeks to analyze the experience of the Maranhão Literacy Day - Yes, I can! and Culture Circles, more specifically in the municipality of Santa Filomena do Maranhão, aiming to recover the program's actions aimed at emancipatory processes, in addition to teaching reading and writing. For the development of the work we resorted to bibliographic and documentary research and also participatory research, as a member of the MST literacy brigade responsible for conducting the Journey. The research was structured in three chapters, the first deals with the roots of illiteracy in the state of Maranhão, presenting the Literacy Day as part of a government policy. The second addresses the relationship between the struggle for land and education in the MST, based on the philosophical assumptions that guide its actions, also recovering the pedagogical processes of the Journey. The last chapter focuses on the experience of the Journey in the municipality of Santa Filomena do Maranhão, from the eyes of the subjects involved in it. Thus, it is intended that the work can contribute to the reflections on youth and adult education and popular education, as important instruments of human emancipation.