Life narratives:
the educational journey of an EJA student
Keywords:
Late schooling. Adult education. Autobiographic registersAbstract
The present work was carried out with the aim of to analyze the significance of late schooling experience based on a 76-year-old student’s point of view. The methods employed for the research included elements of qualitative approach, reading of autobiographic registers and narrative interviews as strategies for approaching reality. The results suggested the existence of an exclusion history of the right to education, experienced by individuals from lower socioeconomic classes. However, when the right to education is guaranteed, it indicates that learning is also an act of self-reconstruction in front of oppressive structures that have historically attempted to silence it. It may be concluded that her trajectory cannot be realized exclusively as an individual effort, but as an expression of collective efforts of individuals historically denied the right to learn.
