ABSTRACT
This paper discusses the experience of youth and adults alphabetizing known as "The 40 hours of Angicos" (RN) that celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in April 2013. It is a product of the work of the Center for Excellence in History and Memory of the Youth and Adult Education and Popular Education in Rio Grande do Norte. The idea is to unite the stories of this pedagogical and political experience through the voices of some of its co-authors that remembered contexts, projects and teaching practices experienced by them during that period. Interviews with thirteen of these co-authors were conducted in 2012 and 2013 and made the researchers think that, beyond alphabetizing, the power that keeps this experience alive is the ability to put into practice Paulo Freire's principles, like the pedagogical relationship between knowing subjects that are considered innovative until today.
KEYWORDS
youth and adult education; memory; Angicos' 40 hours