Aprendizaje y ense？anza de la historia: Participación e historia en educación de adultos

the topic of literacy has been a worry for historians such as gramsci and other members of the school of birmingham and to pedagogues such as paulo freire; all of them have had as a starting point the idea that it was necessary to know the culture of the learners in order to make the process of literacy -although not always formal- allow the non-hegemonic people to express themselves in their own words, instead of repeating words. we re？ect on the relationship between the culture of populated urban areas, history, the teaching and the learning of history starting from a ？eldwork done in 2003 in a provincial adult school in the city of bahía blanca. we will compare this material to the information compiled in other similar works done in the municipal literacy centers. we are interested in analyzing the in？uence of proposals for educational decentralization and the public policies in this area, since adult students (most of which are female) attend school in exchange for receiving social plans.