Os direitos humanos na educação dos jovens e adultos como fundamento da cidadania

Abstract

The present study aimed to identify the conditions of access and permanence of the Youth and Adult Education subjects in the public school’s High School in the county of Igaracy - PB, based on the assumption that the realization of the human and social right to quality education takes place through these processes in schooling. In order to achieve this general objective, a discussion was started on Youth and Adult Education as a human and social right, reflecting on the conditions of access and permanence of the students of Youth and Adult Education in High School at the public school in the county of Igaracy - PB in the schooling process. Then, Human Rights Education was presented as an instrument for social transformation in the education of Youth and Adults. The research has a qualitative approach, supported by the life history method and the bibliographic, documentary and field research. The tools for the data generation were the semi-structured interview and the questionnaire with the (05) students who are between (25) and (55) years old, graduates of the Youth and Adult Education at Joselita Brasileiro Integral Citizen School located in the county of Igaracy - PB. The data was analyzed in the light of the set of techniques called content analysis. The results show that the conditions of access to education are mostly linked to economic and subsistence issues, that the main reasons for dropping out of school are related to work and pregnancy, and that among the difficulties reported by the interviewees about staying, are: time to study, shift, schedule, distance, fear on the way back home, as well as tiredness due to work.