Educação de Jovens e Adultos: reflexões, perspectivas e desafios

Abstract

EJA (Youth and Adult Education) is a program that helps and encourages citizens to complete their basic training in the education system, which for some reason was interrupted, or not even started. The general objective of this work is to understand the training paths and the stories of personal and professional development of students of Youth and Adult Education from their narrations. For data collection, observation, questionnaires, interviews and records in a logbook were used. Initially, observation was carried out in all classes from the 2nd to the 8th period of a medium level course integrated with a technical training. The students interviewed are, in short, low class, who gave up or discouraged their studies for personal reasons and other factors, such as lack of job opportunities, low wages and child care, and who see EJA as a new opportunity of study and work. It is noted that EJA appears as a tool to complete high school and enter a higher education course to take advantage of new opportunities, fulfill the dream of having a profession and more knowledge about it, because many, in the course of life, quit because they find many difficulties in the school environment, and the routine of studying, working, taking care of the family and learning difficulties and understanding the content studied becomes tiring.