Começar de novo: um estudo sobre as trajetórias de exclusão e expectativas de jovens e adultos que retornam à escola

Abstract

This Work consists in a reflection about the exclusion trajectories and expectations from the Education of Youths and Adults students, evidencing the challenges faced during these people lives. It has as the objective knowing the EJA students trajectories, in order to identify the conditions that influenced the return to the school after many years. The research had as empirical reference a Municipal School of Amargosa - Bahia that attends a public belonging to the popular classes inserted in the headquarters of the municipality. The public researched for this work were four students of Youth and Adult Education. Thus, a research with a qualitative approach, such as a field study with basis in a case study and using as data collect techniques, the semi structured interview with the students was carried out. In addition, the procedures for interpretation and data processing were anchored in Content Analysis, based on the studies of Bardin (2009). In all the research the theoretical and conceptual approach was based, mainly in the studies of Freire (1989), Arroyo (2007), Soares (2001), Oliveira and Sales (2012), Carlos and Barreto (2008), Brasil (1988) among others that contributed with studies and reflections on the subject. Based on the data and analyzes, it was possible to notice that people of the research (students) went through a life of exclusion and political, social, cultural and family negligence, that were determinant to non-entry and / or permanence in the school context. The research shows that we live in a society where relationships are grafocentric and these factors entail prejudices of different orders. Thus, it reveals the social importance attributed to Youth and Adult Education in the fight against prejudice and negligence, through liberating, coherent, critical and responsible actions. It also points to the need for the qualification of public policies that truly meet the EJA students, making possible the breaking of historical paradigms of the elites alienation over the popular classes.