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This paper presents theoretical and methodological aspects of a current doctorate sub-project referred to the psycho-social processes involved in the construction of demands by youngster and adult education (EDJA in Spanish). It belongs to a framework project which analyzes factors and processes that takes into account the situation of the demand of EDJA in popular sectors of Buenos Aires City (Dir.: Sirvent) that has diagnosed a situation of deep educational poverty and the validity of the principle of accumulative advance in education. The paper presents some analysis categories integrative axis. It emphasizes in one of these axis, centered in the educational trajectory, starting from a life story taken as a case study that allows us to understand the development of the construction of demands processes in the dialectical interplay among the schooling, the EDJA and the social learning, considering the subject in their integrity and in their vital, family and socio-historical context. There are educational lacks which accumulate and feed each other, causing exclusions and configuring inhibiting psycho-social aspects. However, the dynamics of the stimulating learning are also observed. Our future work aims to combine investigation and intervention on these problems through participative instances of collective construction of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]