O significado da escolarização para os alunos da EJA

Abstract

This research is the result of an investigation held with the evening basic education students of Educação de Jovens e Adultos EJA from a school located in a town named Aparecida de Goiânia-Goiás, to understand the main question of this paper: What is the meaning of schooling to the EJA students? We discussed the dynamic from the school practice, and also the expectations from those young and adult students according to the precepts of the Vygotsky historical cultural approach. The Political- Pedagogic Projects from Colégio Campo were analyzed and also the actions that guide the work developed in this school during the learning process of those citizens. Later, an empiric investigation was held by means of a semi-structured interview, with eighteen young and adult students from EJA, from different grades. The questionnaire about the students profile also contributed in this dynamic, and the intriguing points of observation. In the school, was observed the efforts of the educators and theorist, to cover the dimension of the complexity in this modality of education, that is reasoned in the construction of a fairer society. The EJA proposal oriented to the school is based on the principles of a liberating education and has the goal to contribute with the formation of the person in his/her totality. The study reveals, among other things, that the organization of the school takes into account the specifications of the students from EJA, and also, the recognition and relevance of the school and its possibilities to professionalization.