Mathematics teaching in adult education: Betim (MG), 1990s

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Ana Rafaela Correia
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Gomes, Maria Laura Magalhães
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Zetetiké (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/zetetike/article/view/8652626
• topic: Adults Education (EJA); Mathematics teaching; Municipal education network of Betim (MG); Oral history; Educação de pessoas jovens adultas e idosas (EJA); Ensino de matemática; Rede Municipal de Educação de Betim (MG); História oral

This article focuses on teaching of Mathematics in the Adults’ Education in the course offered by MunicipalEducation Network of Betim, MG, between 1995 and 1999. The main source of the study consists of interviewswith eight educators, with the use of Oral History as a theoretical-methodological principle. Three interrelatedsections compose the central part of the text: the question of the relation between the available time and thecurriculum for adults, the motivations for selecting the subjects to be taught and the content actually proposedand worked. The main guiding criteria of the curriculum were the presentation of Mathematics in relation tosocial life and other areas of knowledge; the abbreviation of school time compared to regular education, theprospect of continuing studies for students.The analysis of the interviews emphasizes several aspects, such as the lack of teaching materials designedspecifically for adults, the difficulties of students in Mathematics, the teachers' lack of attention to theparticularities of young, adult and elderly people.