Os sentidos e significados atribuidos ao saber cultural no currículo

the current article is a result of a research accomplished in the pedagogical proposal of education of youngsters and adults of a public school in brazil. the meaning that young people and adult attribute to the knowledge built in their lifelong and the meanings that are produced in relation their culture with the other knowledge. from the discussions of authors like silva (2004, padilha (2004), hall (1997,2003), arroyo (2001), fonseca (2002) we indicate three categories to understand and discuss about the relation of meaning/culture/knowledge: the meaning attributed by epja to the knowledge brought by the students; the ways of disposition and the relation that constitute from the cultural cognition in the pedagogical proposal and its interferences in the configuration of subjectivity; the participation of the students in the proposal as a possibility of feeling themselves as authors of their culture.