Experiências e expectativas de jovens estudantes: Uma abordagem do processo de juvenilização na eja

Abstract

The present research is a study about the experiences and expectations of young students of the EJA. Youth and Adult Education is a type of education aimed at young people and adults who throughout their lives no longer attend regular education, and is characterized as a viable path to return, or even beginning the basic process of schooling. This type of education has attracted an increasingly younger audience, and this process of juvenileization of the EJA occurs due to difficulties of access and permanence of young people in regular education. Therefore, the present work aims to understand and reflect the school experiences and expectations of young people in the classes of EJA, through the identification of socioeconomic profile, school trajectory and reported experiences. Bringing EJA to the center of educational discussions is of fundamental importance, considering that this modality seeks to reinsert an audience that stopped attending regular school at the right age, and beyond the discussions, it is necessary to understand the reasons why this modality is attracting so many young people who could be attending regular school. The research carried out is of a qualitative nature, and has as an instrument for data collection the interview through electronic means, aimed at collecting reports of young EJA student collaborators, cycles V and VI. The most recurrent reports of the research show results with experiences of young people with history of disapprovals and abandonment of regular education for entry into the labor market. The EJA is addressed in educational legislation as a modality of basic education aimed at professional education, however, in the speeches of young people the professionalization for entry into the labor market is not the only desire, many aim for entry into higher education after completion of teaching basic. Expectations show that the youth of the EJA think of education as the main tool for a promising future.