A realidade da educação de jovens e adultos em uma escola pública municipal

Abstract

This article analyzes the functioning of Youth and Adult Education as a right and modality of education. The research was carried out in 2017, in an EJA III class, corresponding to the 6th and 7th years of elementary school in the municipal public school Francisco Rocha Ramos, Centro, Acarape, Ceará. It is a basic research of the descriptive type regarding the objective and qualitative regarding the approach. In relation to the technical procedure, the case study was used. The research points to present advances and challenges throughout the history of education in Brazil and presents the Freirean perspective as an important reference point that supports the curricular guidelines of public educational institutions, indicating the need for social mobilization as an element of struggle and defense of the right of the population to free, quality public education, including for the EJA. It concludes by emphasizing that students who are part of the EJA education need encouragement and support to remain in the classroom. In this way, it is fundamental that teachers have access to formations that explore their abilities and search for new alternatives of knowledge and identity for students of EJA.