A Educação de Jovens e Adultos e sua “juvenilização”: a expressão de uma promessa não cumprida de educação para todos no município de Cascavel (PR)

Abstract

In this article, through documentary research, we discuss the production of the phenomenon of “youthfulness” of Youth and Adult Education. We aim to provoke reflection on the production of this phenomenon from an element that highlights it, namely: the growing number of young people and adolescents who fall into this type of education. We used data collected by sampling at the State Center for Basic Education for Youth and Adults in Cascavel (PR). We work, for the approach, with the theoretical and methodological contribution of historical materialism through which we study research data on Youth and Adult Education, analyzing them with the support of theorists who discuss social organization, in this, education, and specifically education for youth and adults. From this, we triggered the discussion about the factors that influence this process, since the educational policies since the 1990s reaffirm the offer of education for all, which would mean access for all children to school. Therefore, an inconsistency prevails, that is, the “offer of education for all” did not materialize and the premature entry of these subjects in the Youth and Adult Education modality denounces this, expressing, in the first instance, the characteristic duality of the educational system of the country that distributes differently the conditions of access to knowledge.