2011
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-69922011000300011
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Velhice e analfabetismo, uma relação paradoxal: a exclusão educacional em contextos rurais da região Nordeste

Abstract: Resumo: Este artigo procura analisar a relação entre velhice e analfabetismo na região Nordeste do Brasil, especialmente em duas áreas: o semiárido do Rio Grande do Norte e a zona cacaueira do Sul da Bahia. De acordo com o Censo 2010 do IBGE, é na região Nordeste onde se verificam os maiores índices de analfabetismo do país. O problema do analfabetismo atinge principalmente as populações mais idosas, de cor negra e parda, do sexo feminino, e os residentes nas áreas rurais. A relação existente entre latifúndio … Show more

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“…This reveals the reality experienced by elderly nowadays with respect to education in his childhood and youth, since only the "Constitution of 1988 guarantees the indiscriminate reach of compulsory supply and essential free public education, extended to the whole population, regardless of age (art. 208, I)" [16]. This corroborates with the 2010 census data which indicates that around 67% of elderly in the Northeast region have at most 3 years of study [17].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 84%
“…This reveals the reality experienced by elderly nowadays with respect to education in his childhood and youth, since only the "Constitution of 1988 guarantees the indiscriminate reach of compulsory supply and essential free public education, extended to the whole population, regardless of age (art. 208, I)" [16]. This corroborates with the 2010 census data which indicates that around 67% of elderly in the Northeast region have at most 3 years of study [17].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 84%
“…High levels of illiteracy can act to reduce comprehension of one's surroundings, a reduction in access to information and an inability to read and write. 10 The mean age of 74 years among the elderly patients corroborates the demographic transition, within which the life expectancy of Brazilians has increased from 74 years in 2011 to 74.6 years in 2012. 11 Populational aging engenders social and family problems, considering that a portion of the elderly do not possess the minimum physical or psychosocial capabilities required to live on their own.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 72%
“…Women should learn housework with their mothers so they could later marry and become housewives. Moreover, it is important to remember that historically old age was clearly excluded from the capitalist education project, since the industrial elite did not care about projects for aging workers, especially women, except to create strategies to exclude them from the sphere Productive, extending to the right to retirement, which gave way to young workers, recently "educated" or "formed", 32 being, therefore, one of the determinants of the economic fragility of many elderly people today.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%