O IFRJ e a Rede Federal de Educação Profissional, Científica e Tecnológica: resistências e a consolidação de uma política pública nacional de Educação de Jovens e Adultos Integrada à Educação Profissional e Tecnológica (EJA-EPT)

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze how the policy of Youth and Adult Education integrated with Professional and Technological Education (EJA-EPT) has been consolidated in the IFRJ and in the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education from 2006 to the present day. The research seeks to answer whether the consolidation of EJA-EPT has been fully realized in the IFRJ and the Federal Network. The study used historical-dialectical materialism as its method of analysis, taking into account the categories of mediation, contradiction, totality and historicity, so that it would be possible to correlate the parts and the whole of concrete social reality and the object being researched. In order to answer the research question, the methodological approach was carried out through a bibliographical study, documentary analysis and content analysis of the semi-structured interviews. The bibliographic study focused on the categories of Work, State and Rights in Capitalism and Education. The documentary analysis was based on the appropriation of decrees, directives, ordinances, laws, data made available on government and civil society platforms. Content analysis was based on the analysis of speeches made at public hearings, EJA forums, national EJA-EPT meetings and semi-structured interviews. The initial hypothesis of the research was confirmed, i.e. that the EJA-EPT has not been consolidated in the IFRJ or in the Federal Network; this is the result of institutional resistance, scrapping policies, reduced investment, especially after the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in 2016. Despite this scenario, it is possible to attest that, from the third Lula administration onwards, the National Pact for Overcoming Illiteracy and Qualifying Youth and Adult Education was built; led by Secadi / Setec / MEC, in dialogue with other Ministries and civil society, paving the way for the future consolidation of this policy in the IFRJ and the Federal Network.