No passo, no compasso e no tecer de travessias: narrativas de jovens e adultos de uma escola da rede municipal de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The present work has been carried out within the Graduate Program of Education of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora and conducted with students of Youth and Adult Education (EJA) in a school of the educational system of the city of Juiz de Fora during the Covid-19 pandemic. Through an exchange of letters between researcher and students, this work aimed at reflecting on sociocultural relations that pervade the experience of the school space concerning the image of youths and adults and on how the inclusion of this public in the educational process has been established. In this regard, we present the aspects of this particular public, which historically has been marked by preconceptions inherent in roots emerged since Colonial Brazil. To this day, improper speeches and school practices disregard the real needs of these students. Therefore, through their narratives and based on their experience, our aim was to understand how young and adult students portray meanings related to the school space as from the moment they resumed their studies. Thus the path of the students was elaborated, set up and consolidated through narratives of their storytelling, weaving the constitution of the subjects and the meaning they give to their own lives and to school.