The about education / schooling of women egressed from the prison system

Abstract

The present article refers to the perception and experience of women egressed from the penitentiary system about education / schooling throughout their lives. It addresses data from the doctoral thesis A (re)inserção social de mulheres com histórias de privação de liberdade, Falcade (2019). Said exploratory and qualitative research, involved the participation of 20 women from the prison system in Curitiba and the metropolitan region. For data collection, it was used as instrument a questionnaire with 46 questions, plus observation during its application. In order to discuss and analyze the impacts of attending classes or not during their lives, this article addresses a specific section referring to the school issue experienced in their trajectories, before, during and after deprivation of liberty. For this, were used the methodology and data of the thesis referring to the various factors about their lives in the return to freedom and the impact of the school experience in the deprivation of freedom in their return. One of the results obtained in the research and which is discussed here, demarcated the importance of school activities in their lives and the important participation and mediation of the teacher in the rescue of their self-esteem and human dignity between walls and grids and in freedom.