As mulheres e a educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

This research aims to study the challenges faced by women in the Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) program in resuming their studies and maintaining regular attendance in the classroom, questioning the importance of EJA for women. To answer this question, a qualitative bibliographic research was conducted, involving the reading and analysis of existing works on the subject and also with the inclusion of the autobiographical narrative of the researcher, as a woman from EJA, whose experience is added to the analyses of other women present in the study examined in the TCC by Eiterer, Dias and Coura. Specifically, the research aimed to describe the trajectory of EJA in Brazil from the colonial period to the re-democratization and to identify the current daily difficulties faced by women in EJA, both inside and outside the classroom, during their process of returning to education. To contextualize the history of EJA, the study referenced Haddad and Di Pierro (2017), Porcaro (2009), Romanelli (2022), and Brandão (1981). To discuss the issue of women in EJA, the study used Stamatto (2002), Louro (2004), Almeida (2009), Eiterer, Dias, and Coura (2014), and Federici (2019). This research concluded that many advances are still needed to repair the damage suffered by women over time due to their historical exclusion from the right to access education. Regarding access, the need to provide more schools offering EJA was identified so that these women can attend the school closest to their homes—this being a measure potentially capable of reducing their exposure to the risk of various forms of violence, especially sexual violence. Concerning permanence, the provision of daytime classes, financial aid, free public transportation passes, welcoming spaces in schools for the children of women students, the preparation of educational teams to address the particularities of the EJA modality, and, finally, raising awareness in society about women's right to education were shown to be urgent and necessary actions to mitigate the difficulties faced by women who seek in EJA to make up for lost time.