APRENDIZAGEM E DESENVOLVIMENTO NO CONTEXTO DA EJA: REFLEXÕES A PARTIR DE UMA EXPERIÊNCIA DE ESTÁGIO

Abstract

Youth and Adult Education (EJA) is a modality that encompasses Elementary and High School education and meets the demands of subjects belonging to different age groups who did not have access to school or did not complete a certain school stage at the corresponding age. Thus, it provides an opportunity for individuals to start or continue their studies, guaranteeing rights to those who did not have this chance before or who, for some reason, abandoned it. The present research aimed to draw attention, based on reflections on an internship experience, to the learning and development processes that took place in the context of Youth and Adult Education. Possibilities for teaching in this modality were presented and discussed, highlighting methods and methodologies that subsidized qualified mediations of learning processes and human development both at group and individual levels. From the results of the study, it was found that the EJA is a privileged scenario for the mediation of human development and learning, in view of the complexity and variety of experiences that constitute it; it is an instrument for transforming lives and needs to be the object of investments whenever social change is aimed at.