EDUCAÇÃO A DISTÂNCIA: MODALIDADE DE ENSINO INCLUSIVA PARA A EDUCAÇÃO DE JOVENS E ADULTOS

Abstract

The present work, presented to the Lato Sensu Postgraduate Course in Teacher Training and Educational Practices at the Federal Goiano Institute - Campus Ceres, addresses the problem of young people and adults excluded from the school system. The research, with a qualitative approach, uses the bibliographic and documentary review and has the general objective of analyzing the causes of this exclusion and proposing an inclusive teaching alternative for its minimization. The hypothesis raised is that Distance Education (DE) is an able modality of promote the inclusion of young people and adults in the school system. The following specific objectives were included: to identify the characteristics of the YAE's public target; analyze the effectiveness of public policies aimed at YAE; point out pedagogical deficiencies in the teaching of youth and adults and discuss Distance Education as an alternative modality of inclusion in YAE. It is concluded that the main causes of the exclusion of young people and adults from the educational system are those of a socioeconomic, pedagogical nature and the ineffectiveness of public educational policies aimed at YAE. The hypothesis is considered proven. However, the application of the modality must be preceded by measures such as the elaboration of a specific pedagogical project that values the student as the main subject of the teaching-learning process and continuing teacher training, in order to prepare educators to deal with the specificities of YAE and with the technologies used in distance education. Observing these measures, DE can be a modality applicable to YAE as an alternative for the rescue of millions of subjects excluded from the school system.