The women's insertion in alphabetization program: students motivations

Abstract

Is objective of this article motivations in relation to the formal alphabetization process explicit by woman inserted in graphocentric environment. The following question guided the study: What motivates the women participant in this study to call upon a scholastic institution to participate of an alphabetization program?. Theoretically this work, a study case of ethnographic kind, is based on Graff (1994), Britto (2003; 2004), Stromquist (2005), among others. The results point to a convergence between the purposes of these programs and that motivations.

Keywords

• Alfabetização
• Educação de jovens e adultos
• Motivações