Beyond alphabetization: historical perspectives of the Mozambiquean experience of young and adult alphabetization

Abstract

This article has the objective to raise some reflections about studies of young and adult Alphabetization that compose the manual organized by a teachers group of the Education Departament in Eduardo Mondlane Mozambique University. The organization of the manual has the perspective of identifying the studies about Young and Adult Alphabetization in Mozambique and shows a complex whole of investigative studies about the adult alphabetization in the country, since the first programs till nowadays. Thus, the focus of the discussions of this text is based only on two classes among the five proposed in the manual, referring to the young and adult alphabetization in the educative context in Mozambique showing some historical perspectives. These reflexive discussions are based on facts present in the studies of alphabetization, delimiting histories of fights and conflicts and at the same time pointing new horizons to the access of the education by the popular classes.