DESAFIOS DA CULTURA DIGITAL NA EDUCAÇÃO DE JOVENS E ADULTOS NO CONTEXTO DA EDUCAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL E TECNOLÓGICA

Abstract

This study analyzes the challenges related to digital culture faced by students in Youth and Adult Education (EJA) within the context of Vocational and Technological Education (VTE). The intensification of the use of digital technologies, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighted structural inequalities that affect the access and permanence of these historically marginalized subjects in educational processes. The general objective of this study is to analyze the challenges of digital culture in VTE aimed at students enrolled in EJA, discussing the concepts of integral human development and work as an educational principle. Methodologically, this research is characterized as qualitative, exploratory, and bibliographic, based on authors such as Saviani, Kenski, Nóvoa, and Frigotto. The results indicate that the main challenges are related to digital exclusion, precarious technological infrastructure in educational institutions, gaps in teacher training for the pedagogical use of digital technologies, and difficulties in ensuring the permanence of working students in technology-mediated learning processes. It is concluded that the incorporation of digital culture in EJA-VTE must overcome a purely instrumental and technicist perspective, establishing itself as a critical and emancipatory pedagogical practice that recognizes the specificities of the worker-student and promotes social justice.