Juvenilização na educação de jovens e adultos: estudo em uma escola municipal de João Pessoa

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the phenomenon of youthification in Adult and Youth Education (EJA), which has become increasingly prominent in our schools over the years and particularly in current times, a young population coming from the so-called regular daytime education, with a marked process of age/grade lag. Through field research with a qualitative and exploratory approach carried out in a municipal school of João Pessoa, using a semi-structured questionnaire applied to six EJA students, who are going to be called by pseudonyms such as student 1,2,3,4,5 and 6, thus ensuring the confidentiality of the research. The general objective of this study is to analyze the causes that lead young people to EJA, and in face of this conjuncture, to have the possibility to reflect on the possible causes and school itineraries that lead these young people to this type of education. The results reveal young people with heterogeneous specificities, with unsuccessful school passages, among other causes, that led them to this schooling process, but above all they make explicit the struggle to guarantee themselves the utopia of a promising future by completing their studies. As a theoretical basis, authors such as Arroyo (2017), Brunel (2014), Freire (1996), among others, were part of the referential scope of this study, as they discuss the basis of the youthification process in Adult and Youth Education (EJA).