As identidades dos sujeitos da EJA: um estudo nas produções acadêmicas da ANPED

Abstract

This research proposes to analyze the constitution of the subjects of Youth and Adult Education in the scientific articles of the National Association of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Education (ANPED), for its acronym in Portuguese), especially in Working Group 18 which includes the Education of Young and Adult People, in the period from 2003 to 2010. The work aims to uncover the experiences and resistances of the subjects of this modality of education, showing how these subjects’ identities are constructed and reconstructed through different perspectives, there is a common goal, which is the search for life improvements. The investigation was based on the qualitative and quantitative approach, using techniques such as mapping, ordering, classification, systematization and data analysis with its categories. The categories of analysis were: (a) Subject; (b) National Association of Postgraduate Studies and Research; (c) Education (d) Youth and Adult Education. The method used was content analysis from the perspective of Bardin (2011) and Franco (2008). Anchored in the field of Popular Education, the identities of the subjects of Youth and Adult Education have their marks brought by the struggle, with a bias of social class demarcated by the capitalist society of the present world.