Os sujeitos da educação de jovens e adultos e a sua permanência na escola: um estudo na Escola Municipal Ministro José Américo de Almeida

Abstract

Youth and Adult Education (EJA) is a teaching modality that presents different specificities. The subjects that make up the EJA bring different brands of life with them, they are sensitive individuals who have differentiated knowledge of the world. However, it is known that these students seek the school to change their lives from learning, because they are individuals who, for various reasons, gave up studying or did not have access to the school in the appropriate age group. This research aims at knowing and reflecting on the reasons that contribute to the EJA subjects going to school, identifying what the students expect from the school, ascertaining the level of satisfaction of the EJA students by the school and reflecting how the school can influence in the school. access and permanence of the student in the EJA, having as field of research the Municipal School Minister José Américo de Almeida, in which the subjects of the research were the students of Cycle I and II, totaling fifteen students, being ten students of Cycle I and five of the Cycle II, of which five were male and ten female. The methodology of qualitative and also bibliographic approach and the technique used was the participant observation and as instrument, the questionnaire. The theoretical reference used in this research were: Brazil (2006), Freire (1996), Laffin (2011), Gil (2008) and Minayo (2008). With the analysis of the data, it was noticed that the figure of the teacher of the EJA is one of the main reasons that contribute to the permanence of these students in the school space.