CRITICAL DIGITAL LETTERING IN THE CONTEXT OF YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATION IN THE VOICES OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Language. EJA. Teaching Narratives. Critical Digital Literacy.
This qualitative study, under the focus of narrative research, is part of the precepts of Critical Applied Linguistics (LAC), aims to analyze, through oral narratives of language teachers, whether language practices combined with the use of Digital Information Technologies and Communication (TDIC) in the training processes of students of Youth and Adult Education (EJA) are based on the principles of Critical Digital Literacy and how critical training is manifested in the voices of teachers. The research data come from six narrative interviews carried out, remotely, through the Google Meet Platform and also in person with Language teachers, who work in the EJA of a State School of Integral Development of Basic Education (EEdieb). In the theoretical contribution, the Literacy (s), New Literacies and Multiliteracies were contextualized, in order to relate them to each other and to the concept of critic (a) - fabric from the epistemology of the critical term, conceptions of authors who study LAC, the works of Paulo Freire and educational guidelines such as the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC, 2017), Curricular Reference Document for Mato Grosso (DRC-MT, 2018). With reference to Critical Digital Literacy, the challenge was to conceptualize it based on an epistemological and dialogical relationship to provide opportunities for reflections in the analysis and interpretation of the teachers' oral narratives. These voices echoed in the sense of identifying themselves as chosen by the profession when they answered the call for teaching, that is why they feel satisfied in EJA because they understand the social role they play, as far as language practices are concerned, there are actions linked to the use of DICT, although limitations of the effective naturalization of Critical Digital Literacy in the face of the difficulties of access and use of technologies in education, as well as the socio-historical situation of students and teachers.