Diário de experiências: leituras e escritas na educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

In this research, I ponder about Youth and Adult Education, in its nuances and learning expectations. I justify that there is a complex educational scenario, in which students arrive at school with formal expectations of reading and writing. The school expects students to learn this reading and writing as well. However, what I follow in practice is, in many cases, some knot in this process, in which students do not see themselves attended to in their learning and the school does not see itself being attended to in its teaching objectives provided for in the canon of the school curriculum. Thus, the main objective of the research is to understand the reading and writing expectations of EJA students. For this, I seek to understand what EJA is, to understand what their experiences with reading/writing are and what they expect from the school in this process of building their readings and writings. For this purpose, in the methodology of this research, which is qualitative, I use strategies such as participant observation, conversations with students, field diary, dynamics carried out with students of Youth and Adult Education. In addition, I understand this research work as my field of writing. From this, the theoretical framework involves authors such as Conceição Evaristo, Nilda Alves, Nilma Lino Gomes, Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Silvio Almeida, Kabenguele Munanga, and others, who help me to understand the relationships that are woven in EJA, since the main profile of Youth and Adult Education is to be a teaching modality aimed at those who did not have the possibility at the age considered "ideal". Therefore, the EJA audience covers the economically poorer population, has a strong racial profile, many enrollments of women, students, who, according to the school, present "difficulties" in their learning process and who, from a very early age, are linked to the world of work. Thus, the research goes through three chapters that allow me to bring up the analysis of school situations about the expectations of reading and writing for these students.