Citizenship debate: the prospects of the students of PEJA

Authors

  • Maria Denise Guedes Departamento de Educação - Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas IBILCE/UNESP – Campus de São José do Rio Preto
  • Silmara Moraes da Silva UNESP – Campus de São José do Rio Preto
  • Luana Passos UNESP – Campus de São José do Rio Preto

Keywords:

Cidadania, Educação, Ensino, Educação de Jovens e Adultos

Abstract

To educate for citizenship is the aim of the contemporary education. From this premise we developed with our PEJA students a reflection about the concept of citizenship, with the purpose of understanding what are the sense and the meaning they assign to the concept. The results of this classroom reflection were systematized at the present article. For this, we firstly elaborated a brief summary to recover the origin and the meaning of the concept of citizenship in view of the classical and contemporary liberalism. Then, we present the analysis we made from the texts that were produced by the students about the question: what is citizenship? Finally, we elaborated some considerations on the importance of an extension project like PEJA to the students that participate in it, and to the students of the Undergraduate Course of Pedagogy who are in the project as well. Thus, this is a project with institutional extension and it consolidates itself as a key place to the aim of what is worth to the public university: the indissociability’s practice of teaching-research-extension.

Author Biographies

Maria Denise Guedes, Departamento de Educação - Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas IBILCE/UNESP – Campus de São José do Rio Preto

Professora de Filosofia da Educação do Curso de Licenciatura em Pedagogia e Coordenadora-Local do PEJA–Programa UNESP de Educação de Jovens e Adultos - Departamento de Educação–Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas - IBILCE/UNESP - Campus de São José do Rio Preto -SP

Silmara Moraes da Silva, UNESP – Campus de São José do Rio Preto

Licenciada em Pedagogia pelo Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas IBILCE/UNESP – Campus de São José do Rio Preto-SP (estagiária-bolsista do PEJA em 2006 e 2007 e colaboradora em 2008), mestranda do PPGEE-FCLAR-Araraquara

Luana Passos, UNESP – Campus de São José do Rio Preto

Licenciada em Pedagogia pelo Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas IBILCE/UNESP – Campus de São José do Rio Preto-SP (estagiária-bolsista do PEJA em 2006 e 2007), mestranda em Linguística Aplicada pelo PPGL-IBILCE-UNESP-Campus de São José do Rio Preto-SP

How to Cite

GUEDES, M. D.; SILVA, S. M. da; PASSOS, L. Citizenship debate: the prospects of the students of PEJA. Educação: Teoria e Prática, [S. l.], v. 19, n. 33, 2009. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.rc.biblioteca.unesp.br/index.php/educacao/article/view/3211. Acesso em: 18 jul. 2024.

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