Juvenilização dos estudantes da educação de jovens e adultos: causas e efeitos / Vitória Régia Caldas da Silva.

Abstract

The general objective of this research is to analyze the process of juvenilization of students in Youth and Adult Education (EJA) and the specific objectives are to Identify the reasons that have led young people to seek it out; to point out the factors that cause adolescents and young people to fail at school in Regular Primary Education and to describe how EJA has organized itself to deal with the process of juvenilization of its students. The problem question of this research is: What are the factors that contribute to the process of juvenilization of students who are currently part of the EJA teaching modality? The methodology used was qualitative, based on field research. The research data was collected from three elementary school students by means of semi- structured interviews with nine questions. In the theoretical framework, we discussed the process of juvenilization of these students as well as the trajectory of the EJA in Brazil based on authors such as Freire (1997), Haddad and Di Pierro (2000), Freire (2009), Schwartz (2012), Costa (2016), Santos (2017), Ferreira (s.d), Oliveira et al. (2020). The results obtained in the analysis show that the process of juvenilization of the EJA takes place through social, economic and educational problems that directly affect the school development of these young people. Problems such as teenage pregnancy, social vulnerability and discontinuation of studies were identified as the main reasons for these young people dropping out of elementary school for the EJA.