Perspectivas e percursos teóricos metodológicos nas pesquisas sobre Educação de Jovens e Adultos. Análises de publicações na Revista Brasileira de Estudos Pedagógicos - 1980 a 2016

Abstract

This work has as thematic the theoretical methodological perspective and course in the researches about Youth and Adults Education. Analysis of the papers published in the Brazilian Magazine of Pedagogical Studies 1980 to 2016. The main question is: Which theoretical and methodological perspectives and courses in the YAE published at the periodic BMPS, at the period of 1980 - 2016? In the beginning, the objective was to map researches about the YAE. At this first moment, was realized an exploratory and random research in 24 periodic Capes Qualis A1, A2 and B1 list, in the aim of, starting with the content of this publications, identify the discussions about the thematic Youth and Adults Education and build a new list of descriptors to increase and enhance the search at the periodic BMPS, considering the period 1980 2016. After this step, was made a second uplift, a bibliographical documental study, which has made possible to select and to map, from the descriptors Adults Education, Youth and Adults Education, Youth and Adults Literacy, Mobral Substitution, Popular Education, Permanent Education, Right to Education, Learn throughout life and Learning throughout life, 43 papers, 36 online and 7 printed. The 43 papers were analyzed from the descriptors, taking in consideration theoretical methodological perspectives and courses of the research, having as a theoretical fundament the analysis of Pierre Boudieu, Jean-Claude Chamboredon and Jean-Claude Passeron (2010), Florestan Fernandes (2004), Michel Thiollent (1987), Miriam Limoeiro Cardoso (1976), and others, searching the comprehension of how the researchers of YAE has been operating with their theoretical methodological perspectives at the researches developed and published in the period BMPS, from 1980 to 2016. In the follow analysis, it is observed, from the descriptors: Adults Education and Youth and Adults Education; Youth and Adults Literacy; Mobral Substitution; Popular Education and Learn throughout life; Right to Education the same methodological quality in the recorded researches in the selected papers. Even with different features concerning the thematic and the different approaches, all the papers present in the resumes and in their full text, indications of qualitative researches, in their majority instrumentalized by ethnographic approach techniques, by application of quizzes, by directed interviews, a literature review, of construction and field diary techniques, and other techniques and own approaches from qualitative researches. This identification made possible to conclude, upon a theoretical framework of the research, that the majority of the 43 papers are classified as empiric works because they present statistics data or other researcher s data, but with little analysis or little or none theorizing. Those papers has the features of descriptive texts in the level of approach and of the researcher s abstraction because they register only the author s comprehension in their study practices and debates and their own experiences in the classroom and of conceptions formed by YAE students. Works in which the authors concern showing results of their experiences with students, as well as the documental analysis results, of studies and debates and some review of literature