Formação de professores para a EJA: uma análise de produções acadêmicas da região sul

Abstract

The research has as theme the training of teachers for Youth and Adult Education (EJA), and aims to answer the following question: What do the academic researches of the South region reveal about the formation of the teachers in EJA?. It establishes as the general objective to analyze the main characteristics and trends of the academic research on teacher education for the EJA in the southern region. It aims to reflect the dimension of productions in this field of study, understanding the knowledge that has been built on the theme. The specific objectives are: To understand the historical trajectory of the EJA in Brazil, reflecting the aspects of teachers’ training for the modality; (ii) To construct the methodology that the study will address; (iii) To raise what has been produced on the EJA by stricto sensu post-graduate programs in Education in the States of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, in the period from 2011 to 2015; (iv) To analyze the academic researches produced in the southern region that approch the teacher training for EJA. The dissertation is organized in four chapters: "Brief history of the education of young people and adults in Brazil and reflections on the teachers’ formation for the modality", which, first addresses the historical milestones from 1964, presenting the main Initiatives aimed at the young and adults, as well as the movements, programs and laws created over the years for the modality, in the sequence also presents some important reflections on the training of teachers of this modality. The second chapter "Methodological Foundations of Research" reveals the research course, which is configured as a bibliographical and qualitative research, as a kind of state of knowledge. The third chapter "Review of literature" presents the academic productions found in the southern region, that approach the theme of EJA, these researches are distributed in categories of analysis, created a posteriori reading of the findings, being them: Curriculum; Work and education; Conceptions and Pedagogical Practices; Evasion and permanence; Public policy; School inclusion and teachers’ training. The fourth chapter "Analysis of academic productions of the southern region that approach the formation of teachers in the EJA" analyzes studies belonging to the category "Teacher Training" highlighting the main ideas discussed and the approximation between the researches, among the themes that the productions Point out: Pedagogical Practice; Dialogue; Transposition of contents; Experience of learners; Unfinished teachers; Public policies and lack of specific training. Finally, we present the final considerations, highlighting the urgency of specific training in the area, educational practices, wich value young and adult learners, the need of guarantee more space for EJA in universities, as well as the lack of educational policies committed to The EJA and the teacher who works in it.