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This article aimed to analyze the didactic strategies used by teachers of Youth and Adult Education of three public schools in Alagoas to improve the teaching-learning process. The EJA for many years has been considered an educational subsystem, a poor education for the poor, but there is recognition in recent years of the transformative role it can generate in the lives of people who were excluded from the traditional education system for work reasons, pregnancy, school failure or voluntary dropout. There are also economic reasons that establish the importance of this type of education, being considered as a workforce that must be qualified to enter the increasingly competitive labor market. From a qualitative approach and case study method, research was developed by obtaining data from three focus groups with students and semi-structured interviews with teachers. The data were treated through the content analysis proposed by Bardin (2011). In the speeches arose the dialogic positions of teachers and students object of this research, who demonstrated the importance of the relationship of dialogue and respect between teachers and students of the EJA, highlighting that there are didactic strategies that favor learning, such as practical work and group. However, there is a criticism of the EJA that presents some mechanical processes of nonsense and merely reproductive teaching that do not favor the acquisition of higher thinking skills, such as reflection and analysis of the student's social reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay aims to analyze the National Program for the Integration of Professional Education with Basic Education in the Youth and Adult Education Modality (PROEJA) from the perspective of political refraction. The essay, in methodological terms, works with concepts in order to make sense of reality, in a movement between objectivity and subjectivity. Therefore, secondary data was sought through bibliographic research. With regard to PROEJA, it should be noted that despite the importance and the need for a good State policy aimed at the education of young people and adults (EJA), this type of education has suffered from the worsening of its expansion and maintenance conditions. The choice of the concept of political refraction is justified insofar as it is understood that the lack of improvement and investment in EJA is not due to the legislation pertaining to this type of education, but to the distortion at the time of its implementation. Based on the configuration of the field of EJA education in Brazil, it was noticed that the achievements of this modality for the realization of education as a right for all were obtained through disputes between conservative and progressive sectors. Despite everything that was said, it was found that EJA still exists and resists!. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents spaces for dialogues and debates established around the theme of Youth and Adult Education (EJA) in the context of international and Brazilian events. The qualitative approach brings, as a basis for analysis, the preparatory and final documents of the International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA) and the National Conference on Education (CONAE) that took place in Brazil in the first two decades of the 21st century. The results of the analysis present the focused claims for the education of young people and adults in a context in which the spaces for dialogues, debates and demands become important fields of struggle in the processes of participation and formulation of public policies of EJA. It is, therefore, crucial that the existence of these spaces move from the position of demanding the realization of the right to education to that of contributing to the planning, development and evaluation of EJA public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents results of a research about the infl uence of a teaching phonological awareness skills and grapheme phoneme correspondences program and its impact over adults and young people who where in diff erent stages of learning skills acquirement proposed by Linnea Ehri. Nine students, from an early literacy class at a Youth and Adult Education Center in the city of Rio do Sul - SC - Brazil, were subjects of this study. The intervention research, methodologically applied, was the application of a teaching program which aimed to contribute to the development of the aforementioned skills and knowledge, and two assessments applied at the program beginning and when fi nishing. The qualitative and quantitative analysis data results found shows that after the intervention the research subjects experienced a performance boost on phonological awareness skills, graphemes recognition and reading at all learning stages, especially those who were in transition from the partial alphabetic phase to the alphabetic phase complete. These results suggest that pedagogical practices that promote the graphophonemic correspondences and the phonological awareness development, especially phonemic awareness teaching, can be benefi cial for the reading in young people and adults in the early literacy development process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study presents the movement and offer of Youth and Adult Education (EJA) policy integrated with Professional and Technological Education (EPT) in the Federal Network of Professional and Technological Education, in the Brazilian context, from its institution to the present day. Three distinct movements were analyzed: ascension, stagnation and silencing, producing data through documentary analysis, and, as a systematization, this text was elaborated, with the dialectical analysis as its theoretical-methodological orientation. It was assumed that the EJA EPT policy, built in this space-time as a context of “dialectic of disputes”, now advances and expands the offer, allowing access to the excluded strata of society, it now goes backwards to meet the interests of Capital. Thus, in addition to analyzing the supply and growth of the Federal Network, there was also the influence of the National Program for Access to Technical Education and Employment - PRONATEC, which started to be offered as of 2011, in the EJA EPT policy. The results point out the difficulty of maintaining the integral formation in EJA EPT, considering the neoliberal characteristics in course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aims to analyze the formative profile of teachers working in the Education of Youth and Adults (EYA) in the municipal education network of Macapá, State of Amapá, Brazil. To achieve our goal, we adopted quantitative and qualitative research as well as bibliographic research. The collection of empirical data took place through the application of a specific questionnaire with teachers who work at EYA, and who agreed to participate in the research, in order to identify whether these teachers had the specific qualification in the undergraduate course they attended, or if later, as education professionals, they carried out some qualification that would help them in their work at EYA. We understand that students of this modality have a differentiated profile and learning specificities, which requires a qualified professional to serve them. The survey data revealed the absence of initial training to work in EYA classes in undergraduate courses, as well as failure in continuing education. Therefore, there is much to be done in the public policies so that teachers who work with youth and adults in the municipal network of Macapá can be increasingly qualified to face the challenges that this type of education requires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a brief historical contextualization of the trajectory of youth and adult education (YAE) in Brazil, with the aim of reflecting on the conceptions that underpinned public policies and that still have implications for the educational scenario of this modality. For this, a bibliographic/documentary research was carried out, analyzed in the light of the theoretical assumptions that generate the research in this field of study. It is understood that throughout the history of education, public policies for YAE have been discontinuous and fragmented, not being a priority for governments, which has had profound marks on this modality and its students. YAE is part of a complex political field, with several peculiarities and which, despite having presented countless advances over the decades, has been threatened by regressive public policies that seriously compromise everyone's right to education. Public policies for YAE need to be built from a broad reflection, not only in terms of education, but in its social, economic and cultural context as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paradigm of inclusion, which just began to settle in the field of Brazilian education in late twentieth century and has been trying to consolidate in these first decades of the twenty-first, has posed several challenges to mathematics education. The identification, analysis and proposals for addressing those challenges have been object of research in Brazil, which has faced the impossibility of treating its questions and empirical material without considering the sociocultural tensions surrounding the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion and the close relationship of the processes focused on those involving different uses of language and practices of reading and writing, in a society assumed graphocentric and quanticratic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current paper intends to consider the role of schools in prison. Its aim is not only to understand how students and teachers see it, but also try to find ways of improving the quality of life for those deprived of freedom. The nature of the study is qualitative. The subjects of the study are teachers and students in a penitentiary school in the State of São Paulo/Brazil. Methodological procedures used for data collection were observation, informal conversations, and interviews. Data analysis of the study conducted was based on authors working on this theme in Latin America. This study demonstrates that the school is an effective space for socialization, identity construction and learning, therefore fulfilling its most important role of knowledge, culture, and reality intermediation, offering possibilities of preserving the human rights of young people and adults deprived of their liberty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]