Literacy for adults and seniors: an extension action linked to initial teacher training.

Abstract

The three pillars of public universities are teaching, research, and outreach. The general objective of the article is to report the experience with the EJA discipline and with the Literacy and Literacy Program for Elderly People (PALPI).The initial training of undergraduate Pedagogy students includes the inclusion of outreach curricula. The PALPI, an outreach initiative linked to initial teacher training, was created in 2017 and has since evolved from the creation of a collective that shares Paulo Freire's ideas. PALPI holds daily meetings with the external community (adults and seniors), teaching literacy from a literacy perspective. Furthermore, we conceptually mobilize Pedagogy and Master's in Education students through a study group called the Paulo Freire Collective and link outreach initiatives to the "Youth and Adult Education" course, which is part of the Pedagogy program curriculum. PALPI is a response to the demands of literacy, the aging population, and the right to lifelong education. The collectively created extension activities are shared during initial training, allowing us to plan and reflect on pedagogical practices implemented in the Paulo Freire classroom during the Culture Circles. This allows Pedagogy students to practice what they learn in theory.