The discourses of adult education in Florianópolis: citizenship, work and control

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8420.2015v16n2p185

This paper aims to analyzes the discourses of three legal documents of Adult Education as a teaching modality in Florianópolis educational municipal system, in the light of the concept of governance apparatus, according to Foucauldian discussions. Firstly, we present some methodological issues. Secondly, we develop a discursive over­view of the educational discourses on Adult Education in the Brazilian historical setting – starting from the colonial period until today. After that, we draw an analysis of those official documents concerning Adult Education, examining them according to the dis­courses of work, citizenship and control. We conclude that an assumption of the myth of education and of a positive power that cleaves forms of subjectivity from the need for a controlled and disciplined training of the students still remains in the discourse of Adult Education.