Our story can be told" - A report about literacy in culture circles in Nazaré (RO)

• Autor(a) principal: Theodoro, Helen Cristiane da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Barbado, Michele Cristina Batista, Noronha, Sophia Ricci, Vasconcelos, Valéria Oliveira de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Olh@res (Universidade Federal de São Paulo)
• DOI: 10.34024/olhares.2021.v9.12536
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/olhares/article/view/12536
• topic: Popular Education; Dialogue; Participation; Educação Popular; Diálogo; Participação

Social inequality is a strong mark of Brazil. The maintenance of segregation and hierarchal groups is extended through economic, ethnic, racial, gender, sexual, and even educational lines. Illiteracy persists and coincides almost exactly with the geography of poverty. Faced with this context, this article presents a report drawing on engagement and dialogue with riverside women through which according to one of them: their story "can be told”. The experience was carried out in the community of Nazaré, located on the lower Rio Madeira/RO, in the Brazilian Amazon and took place within the scope of the actions of the Support Group for Riverside Populations in the Amazon (NAPRA). The objective was to develop pedagogical meetings with the intent to onset the literacy of adult riverside women. The methodology was based on culture circles according to the Freirian framework. As a result, four main lessons are pointed out: 1) the importance of being genuinely rooted in the territory where the meetings take place; 2) the need for regional-local articulation for the success of activities; 3) the importance of the process as a generator of collective and individual potential; 4) the understanding that, even if the experience is punctual, it can generate transformation and lovingly sharing. It is important to note that the Amazon has been the focus of serious socioenvironmental threats, being reduced to stories of violence. However, there are a lot of narratives to be shared and it is always possible to hope when we are able to tell another story.