RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PUBLIC POLICIES FOR THE EDUCATION OF INCARNATED PEOPLE AS A LAW AND EDUCATION IN SPACES OF PRIVATION / RESTRICTION OF FREEDOM AND SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION IN SANTA CATARINA (2015/2020)
Public Policies. Education as Law. Education for incarcerated people.
Education in a critical perspective constitutes a strong ally for the realization of emancipatory, integrative and resocializing educational processes. The practice of education is of fundamental importance for the necessary transformations and resignifications in people's way of thinking, acting and relating. Education for incarcerated people has historically been constituted as a precarious educational offer, even though it has undergone significant changes over the last few decades in the Brazilian context. Discussing public educational policies for the context of deprivation of liberty in Brazil is to think of an excluding system. Addressing the issue of education as a right and education and in spaces of deprivation/restriction of freedom is to look at a phenomenon that is loaded with stigmas. From this perspective, this study aims to “analyze the relationships between public policies for the education of people incarcerated as a right and education in spaces of deprivation/restriction of freedom and scientific production in Santa Catarina between the years 2015 to 2020”. The approach of this study is qualitative, as it approaches a universe in which the notion of law, human rights and restriction/deprivation of liberty have meanings interpreted by the “lens” of the researcher. The main data for this interpretation were collected through the State of Knowledge of the scientific productions elaborated in the Graduate Programs in Education/PPGE of the four public institutions of higher education in the state of Santa Catarina: UFSC/UDESC, UFFS and IFC. As main categories we use: childhood category as absolute; right category as the passiveness of class conflicts; right category as an offer of quality education; right category as democratization of access to higher education; right category as the offer of education in different modalities; right category as an offer of continuing education for teachers. We also operate with documents collected on the website of the Secretary of State for Education of the State of Santa Catarina and that support public policies for the provision of education in a space of deprivation/restriction of freedom without, however, embarking on a documentary research . As conclusive nuances, we found that the notion of right transcends the circumscribed legal aspect that composes the documents, expanding the boundaries for understanding childhood as absolute; as the passivation of class conflicts; provision of quality education; as democratization of access to higher education; as an offer of education in different modalities and as an offer of continuing teacher training. This study also detected that there is a gap to be filled when it comes to research that addresses the issue of education as a right and in contexts of restriction/deprivation of liberty, given the few studies found in the period selected for study. Therefore, it is possible to affirm that the volume of productions justifies the need to expand the discussion of the subject in question in the PPGEs of public institutions of higher education in the state of Santa Catarina.