ALFABETIZAÇÃO E LETRAMENTO NA EJA: UMA PERSPECTIVA HISTÓRICA

Abstract

This paper aimed to present the theme literacy and literacy in Youth and Adult Education: a historical perspective. As methodological procedure was used the bibliographic research, with the purpose of verifying how the literacy and literacy of the students of the Youth and Adult Education in Brazil occurs. Approaching the trajectory of Youth and Adult Education, the public policies that it is inserted, the role of the teacher and the need for the training of this professional focused on the teaching of youth and adults. In addition, we seek to address the teaching of students in this educational modality as critical beings and social subjects. Aiming to understand the history of youth and adult education; Identify literacy in EJA; Identify the methodological possibilities of the literacy process according to Paulo Freire. Therefore, we ended the research by emphasizing the importance of literacy and literacy in the formation of the critical and conscious subject of the society in which he is inserted and, from that, he can transform his reality.