A infantilização do material didático para a alfabetização na EJA

Abstract

This work raises an issue that persists in Youth and Adult Education, which is the infantilization of teaching material in literacy. I go through the historical side to understand the difficult process that EJA, currently configured as a modality of Basic Education, has always faced since it emerged. First because it does not have the objectives of a real state public education, but only of catechization, imitation, and lightening, then with the objective of satisfying political needs and supplying the elites. We will talk about their practices and address the production and distribution of teaching materials for basic education and youth and adult education in recent decades. It is worth mentioning that for a long period educational materials for children's education were also used for Youth and Adult Education, in a process characterized by the infantilization of classes. This research, of a bibliographic and documentary nature, had the following authors as its theoretical reference: Paulo Freire (1996); Pinto (1987); Gadotti (2000). At the end of the work it is concluded that, in addition to the few advances we have made, the EJA teaching material has actually been very neglected in its production because it is just a continuation of early childhood education materials and that often, even though they are produced specifically for the EJA, still did not adapt to the reality of the target audience reached by EJA.