Alphabetization and literacy in the youth and adult education: mapping of the academic production in Brazilian periodicals

Abstract

The present article is based on a broader research involving Portuguese and Brazilian researchers funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, 2017-2020), and aims to understand the main foundations, terms /concepts and recurrent authors of field of Youth and Adult Education in Brazil, in the following areas: educational policy and right to education, the theoretical elements and the context of pedagogical practice. The objective of this article is to map themes, categories, objects of analysis and main authors that base the studies on alphabetization and literacy, in the Youth and Adult Education (YAE) having as empirical field a set of research published in periodicals (Qualis A and B from 2001 to 2018).The study has a quantitative-qualitative approach (CRESWELL, 2010) and is based on bibliographical research (LIMA, MIOTO, 2007), using documentary analysis (GIL, 2002). Among other things, the results pointed out the existence of a multiplicity of objects of study and that within this multiplicity there is predominance of analyses of alphabetization and literacy practices. It was also found out that the productions reflect investigations that are empirically based on formal contexts of education and training, and the existence of a mixture between the concepts used of alphabetization and literacy, demonstrating the intrinsic complexity of the meanings and ways in which the terms have assumed new meanings.

Keywords

• alfabetização
• letramento
• educação de jovens e adultos
• pesquisas na educação