A Educação de Jovens e Adultos e os desafios para a docência

Abstract

This research addressed the theme of Youth and Adult Education. The general objective of this work was to understand what Youth and Adult Education is and the challenges for teaching in modality of education. The specific objectives were: a) to understand what Youth and Adult Education is, its main milestones and subjects; and b) reflect on teaching practice in Youth and Adult Education. To achieve the objectives we did a qualitative research of the theoretical-bibliographical type, as I worked with articles, texts, books and a documentary on the subject. The study was theoretically based on the authors: Haddad and Di Pierro (2005), Porcaro (2009), Paulo Freire (2011), Piconez (2013) e Arroyo (2015) and on the contributions of the research that became a documentary “EJA Fora de Série” (2018) developed by Paulo Carrano. The results of this research show that Youth and Adult Education is a modality of education aimed at young and adult students who, for some reason, did not complete regular education in the time considered ideal, leaving school for the most part because they needed to work, some since they were children, to help fathers and mothers in support of family expenses are also subjects who face racism and sexism in their lives. We identified that over time, Youth and Adult Education has suffered many losses and neglect in Brazil. Regarding the teaching practice in Youth and Adult Education, we discussed andragogy as a way of teaching adults. But that only andragogy, only a methodology of teaching adults is not enough to develop a critical conscience. This is a difference from andragogy for education thought by Paulo Freire. Paulo Freire was an educator who defended an emancipatory education, one that freed people from oppression, that this education caused a social transformation, a critical education. Therefore, as a result, we realized that it is not enough to change the way, the way of teaching, but the content, it has to make the individual reflect on his place in society.