EDUCATION AND THE WORLD OF WORK: CONTRIBUTIONS OF GORKY'S LITERATURE TO TEACHING PRACTICES IN THE CONTEXT OF EJA/EPT
Keywords: Youth and adult education; work and education; Marxist literature in EPT; omnilateral training.
This research analyzed the potential of Gorky's Marxist literature as a teaching strategy for promoting omnilateral development through the articulation between education and the world of work, based on the production and listening of students in the secondary technical course in the EJA (Youth and Adult Education) modality offered by the IFRS - Porto Alegre Campus. This is a participatory, qualitative research study using thematic content analysis. The research stages were constituted by the following objectives: the general objective of the work was to investigate the potential of Gorky's Marxist literature for promoting teaching practices that foster the articulation between education and the world of work, as well as for omnilateral development, in particular, based on a study in the context of the EJA (Youth and Adult Education) program offered by the IFRS - Porto Alegre Campus. The specific objectives were to encourage the use of Gorky's Marxist literary works, in particular, the work “Childhood” and Francisco Vilachã's comic strip illustrating Gorky's tales in “Figures of Saint Petersburg and other Gorky tales in comics” and the possible interlocutions with the conceptual bases of EJA-EPT, in particular, in the approach of themes related to education and the World of Work; To produce theoretical and methodological support for the use of Gorky's literature as a literacy teaching strategy for the development of polytechnics in the secondary technical program in the EJA (Educational and Adult Education) modality; to systematize the data produced through the creation of educational videos accompanied by a digital insert focusing on education and work, resulting from listening to students of the secondary technical program in the EJA (Educational and Adult Education) modality based on the reading and reflections generated by Gorky's work. The result obtained for the participating group was a reflection on the training process of the worker who returns to school, permeated with wisdom, yet imbued with the need to relate knowledge of the world of work to formal schooling after a period of absence, valuing their interaction with the world.Reading the representation of a Russian worker's experiences and his literacy process broadens students' reading potential and facilitates discussions with other students about insertion into the world of work through the production and exchange of pedagogical letters, reports, and large-group discussions. Methodologies were adopted to record the subjects' accounts and compose a booklet consisting of a didactic video, a didactic sequence, and the students' artistic production. Furthermore, it provides a research base for further investigations into EJA-EPT students and the reading of Gorkian works. A reflection on experience and social insertion leads students to develop class consciousness and the desire for better living conditions, always identified as workers. An Educational Product was created in the form of a booklet and videos composed of school activities and the production of eight EJA-EPT students, articulated with the world of work and corroborated by Gorkian writings.