Reflexões sobre a educação de jovens, adultos e idosos (EJAI): possibilidades e desafios de estudantes do campo no contexto de Amargosa - Bahia

Abstract

The course completion work presented in the Degree in Rural Education - Agricultural Sciences, aimed to analyze the meanings of peasant students about possibilities and challenges in the Education of Young People, Adults and Elderly (EJAI), in a school in Amargosa - BA. It was a study with a qualitative approach, with the production of data carried out from semi-structured interviews with peasant students at the Territorial Center for Professional Education (CETEP) in the Jiquiriçá Valley. The research participants were four students from that school. As a foundation, we rely on the contributions of Deus (2020), Araújo (2012), Nascimento (2013), Cavalcante (2019), Gadotti (2009), Caldart (2012), Molina (2004), Nascimento (2022), Sales and Vasconcelos (2016) and among others. The results obtained, through the analysis of interviews, indicate that the students interrupted their studies especially due to objective conditions of existence, with the need to work. In another sphere, the main element for the return to EJAI happened in the search for better working conditions, training, realization of dreams and projects for life. Another factor is the appointment of participants indicating the desire for continuity in their training processes.