O perfil e os desafios da educação para jovens e adultos (EJA) em São Félix de Balsas - MA

Abstract

This course conclusion paper has as its theme "The Profile and Challenges of Education for Youth and Adults (EJA) in São Félix de Balsas - MA" focusing primarily on the literacy of young people and adults, that is, students who did not have access or continuity to schooling at their own age, and aims to analyze the determining factors that challenge students and teachers daily in the school environment, from the survey of the profile of the students and teachers of the school. The choice of the theme of this work was the interaction between young people and adults during the work with EJA students at school. From a historical approach on the EJA, which was based on the literature on the subject, the trajectory of the EJA from ancient times to the present day in education was analyzed. Data from the empirical research conducted at the Augusto Martins Municipal School, in the city of São Félix de Balsas – Maranhão, are brought. This research is characterized as field, of the type data collection with exploratory documentary and descriptive methodology, being the qualitative and quantitative approach, in which it had as subject 8 students of the last segment, 4 teachers of the EJA and 2 managers of the same modality. It was found that this academic research proved necessary, since it focuses on the education of young people and adults, exposing problems not only related to this type of education, but especially, being a problem of all education. So that challenges and obstacles arise from regular education, and that, at some point, it came to be denied to these adult individuals at some point in life.