A POLÍTICA DE EDUCAÇÃO DE ADULTOS INTEGRADA À EDUCAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL NO BRASIL: DAS POLÍTICAS ÀS PRÁTICAS.

In the last decade, as of Decree 5,478 / 2005, Brazilian federal institutions started to offer the modality of Youth and Adult Education. This article aims to highlight the main policies implemented by the government, through the Secretariat of Professional and Technological Education, and discuss how such policies have developed in the reality of the Federal Institutes of Rio Grande do Sul - Professional Education policy implemented since Law 11.892 / 2008. The policies and practices of Youth and Adult Education are organized in the context of the dialectic of disputes. In order to analyze the policies and practices of EJA integrated to the EFA, data were produced from a) bibliographic research in the laws that implement the policies and a study on the reality of the Federal Institutes of RS; b) interviews with managers of the Institutes; c) focus groups with students and teachers; and d) interlocution group. The data, after dialectical analysis, indicated a significant investment in EJA policies in the Federal Network from 2007 to 2010; a dispute of conceptions in the policies and practices of the courses implemented and significant experiences for managers, teachers and students [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]