O PROEJA no Colégio Pedro II: trajetória e possibilidades para o êxito de uma educação profissional politécnica e integral

Abstract

The article deals with the Professional Education of Youth and Adults at Colégio Pedro II, based on the observation of the high levels of school dropout in this modality. We analyzed, in detail, the data produced by the Institution's Institutional Development Dean for Integrated High School in the PROEJA modality and reviewed the bibliography on the theoretical problems related to the polytechnic of learning in Professional and Technological Education in Brazil. Divided into four parts, we have: the presentation of the scope of PROEJA in its theoretical bases - based on the perspective of the polytechnic of learning and on the integral formation of the individual; the second presents the trajectory and updated data of the Program at Colégio Pedro II, since its implementation in 2006, dialoguing with the official documentation and the specialized bibliography; the third is dedicated to the most serious problem of Youth and Adult Education not only at Colégio Pedro II, but in the entire federal education network: the high dropout rates and, finally, the fourth part presents some final considerations about this decade and a half of PROEJA in this educational institution, the second oldest in activity in Brazil. In the end, we conclude that the integrated high school offered to the public of young people and adults still lacks an effective institutional policy focused on the specificities of professional EJA, in order to guarantee full, citizen and critical qualification in the world of work.