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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]

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]