Uma breve discussão sobre quem são sujeitos da EJA e quais suas expectativas na sala de aula

Abstract

This monograph is the result of studies carried out in the area of deepening in Youth and Adult Education in the Pedagogy course of the Federal University of Paraíba. The thematic presented was based on the public attended by this modality of education, in order to characterize the students of the EJA and their expectations in the classrooms. The research was carried out in two public schools (one from the state network and another from the municipal school network) both located in the neighborhood of Mangabeira, in the city of João Pessoa, state of Paraíba. We start the work by a brief historical approach to EJA in Brazil, and then we present some EJA concepts through works by Gadotti and Romão (2007), Vanilda Paiva (2001), Osmar Fávero (2011), Paulo Freire (1980), and the documents of Opinion 11/2000 and LDB, following the methodology discussed and the profile of the pupil through the data collection through an interview conducted and a questionnaire with approximately 80 (eighty) students aged between 16 and 61 years. In this analysis, it was contacted that the expectations of the students of the EJA go beyond the vision that the educational system and the society have of them, and that for learning to be really meaningful all those involved in the educational process are aware of the reality of these subjects.