biografias de aprendizagens de mulheres encarceradas - Centro de ...

ABSTRACT
The following work analyzes the learning processes of the women incarcerated in the Institute
of Female Recovering Júlia Maranhão of João Pessoa - PB. We have specifically searched to
learn how this knowledge was (and is being) learned in the course of their lives. To this
purpose, we adopted the biographic focus as presented in the biogrificidad concept of Alheit
and Dausien (1996, 2000, 2007). This theoretical-methodological concept analyzes in both
theory and practices the learning processes and formation of the individual biographies inside
the subject's social contexts. Following these premises, the objective of this study was
established as: to understand the relation between the knowledge learned by the incarcerated
women and the motives that led them to crime. The methodological procedures were specially
adapted to the work's objective and subjects of study. Therefore, we used the biographic
method and associated techniques, such as the subjects' life stories and depth interview. We
have also used quantitative instruments of research to support the qualitative/biographic
analysis. The data classification was organized in three categories (biography and family,
biography and workplace, biography and school/education), which are linked to the
theoretical proposal of biograficidad. The interviews analyses were conducted considering the
biographic courses of the inmates, the major domains of their lives: family, work and
education. The data interpretation allowed us to better define the major marks in their
biographies: the different phases of life (building up a family, exercising a profession and
education), the ruptures and transitions. Most presented dramatic stories, derived from the
absence of a solid familiar reference, child labor and the precarious beginning in the work life,
besides bad experiences at the schooling process. All of them were linked to a criminal
trajectory which encompasses their biographies. The data also reveals these women's
capability when it comes to developing new designs of biographical structures. Their attempts
to affirm themselves as subjects were also a frequent topic in their narratives.
Keywords: Biography, learning, life experience, biograficidad.