Projeto Filhos da EJA: Uma Análise Crítica do Projeto da Prefeitura Municipal de João Pessoa na Paraíba

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the “Children Project EJA” and its implementation in reality, for this purpose it was necessary to write a theoretical framework starting from the concept of education, which according to CFESS “is a complex constituent of social life, which has an important social function in the dynamics of social construction”. Based on this concept, I carried out an analysis on the history of education in Brazil remarking its main social and political contexts of each period, specifically on the Youth and Adult Education (henceforth EJA) created as an opportunity destined to the youth and adults who did not finish their high school at the right age so that they could go back to school.In addition, the study of the gender issues as a differentiation of women in society was a fundamental element of this paper, and it is important to highlight that the existing relations in a capitalist society underlie the gender inequality issues, resulting in women’s school dropout. The study through its aim tries to evidence whether the project, as a strategy created by João Pessoa’s Municipal Plan of Education (MPE) 2015-2025 in order to reduce the school dropout rates in EJA, ensures the ‘equality of conditions to the access and permanence at school’ right, brought by Art. III subsection ¹ in the project. The methodology of this study was based on the reading of documentary and bibliographical data, starting from a critical, historical and dialectical perspective, aiming at showing the contradictory and historical conditions present in the Brazilian education, in the gender relations, and in the focused and selective way in which programs and projects created in neoliberal times do not ascertain the universalization of the rights.