EDUCAÇÃO PARA LIBERDADE: RESSIGNIFICANDO ESPAÇOS SENTENCIADOS POR MEIO DA EXTENSÃO UNIVERSITÁRIA / EDUCATION FOR FREEDOM: REFRAMING SENTENCED SPACES THROUGH UNIVERSITY OUTREACH

Abstract

This text, the result of a course completion work at a public university located in a context of insistent violence, seeks to broaden the understanding of how we can give new meaning to spaces deprived of freedom, such as prisons, through extension programs that emphasize the reading, considering the transformative potential of reading in the prison context. To this end, it sought to problematize the role of the university and extension, as interlocutors of education practices for freedom, as suggested by the title from a Freirean perspective, with a view to achieving an effective and significant exit of those released from the prison system. Furthermore, it criticizes extension as a form of assistance, in which only the university demands and dialogues with society, without realizing and/or considering its demands. With a view to a more in-depth understanding of the challenges and dynamics present in the prison context, the research, of a qualitative nature, sought bibliographic and documentary references, with a view to contributing to the deepening and projection of the theme on the agenda of education and society. As a result, the text intends to constitute another debate that updates and highlights the recognition of the potential of reading to re-signify the inmate's "prison world", including in the moments after serving the sentence - being, therefore, a demonstration of what is makes it possible in a situation of effective freedom.