ABSTRACT:
The intent of this paper is to present reflections on the role of Youth and Adult Education in a singular space: prison. This institution aims to (re)insert people into life in society - people who are better prepared for social life and who have knowledge, skills and values that, most of the time, were not offered throughout their lives. In prison spaces, it is fundamental to listen to people who are silenced by the system's norms. To open spaces for their life narratives is to give them the opportunity to belong in the past-present. In this perspective, Youth and Adult Education in spaces of deprivation of liberty must be based on ideals of popular education, which has man and life as the center of the educational process, and in which learning to read, to write and to interpret, permeate this movement of (re)constructing one's citizenship and people's humanization.
Keywords:
Youth and adult education; Education in prisons; Citizenship and humanization