Cidadania, formação social brasileira e a relação com a educação de jovens e adultos: o caso do PROEJA

Abstract

This study aimed to carry out an analysis of the conceptions of citizenship present in public educational policies for youth and adults dated from the first decade of this century. To understand these concepts of citizenship present in Brazilian society, we seek to investigate the tension triggered by denials and rights achievements by historical subjects. In response to citizens' conceptions formulated in the Brazilian State in the first decade of this century, this research focused its analysis on PROEJA that aims to integrate basic education to vocational education, seeking to overcome the prospect of alienating formationº Therefore, we seek to learn educational content of the policy and its implications for education for life and work (moral and professional) of the Brazilian working class. Based on these notes, investigative research was based on document analysis, based on the epistemological framework of historical materialism, understanding that this method seeks to grasp the historical reality dialectically. Thus, it was discussed about the peculiarities of the Brazilian state formation process, taking as its starting point the colonial period. Therefore, we seek to understand citizens' conceptions put forward in the period of civil-military dictatorship and its implications for labor and education for adult educationº Subsequently, we address the resistance movements suppression of political and individual rights, the effervescence in civil society who set up the return to democracy and the situation that triggered the early years of neoliberalism in the country. Next, we conducted a reflection on the new national policy guidance, outlined by counter reform State and its implications in the formulations of public policies for social and educational area, tracing the specifics of the power bloc of FHC and Lula da Silva. The study reveals that the spread of neoliberalism in Brazil is the watershed of citizenship concepts present in Brazilian social formation, switching from ward citizenship for inclusive citizenship, since the new capitalist sociability brings the reformulation of the hegemony of the ruling class. We confirm these issues by analyzing the pedagogical content Document PROEJA’s basis, we identify a program that has one goal in their modern capitalist production response and the expression of an inclusive citizenship that promotes social cohesion and stimulates respect the diversities. Despite the prospect of inclusive citizenship expressed in the policy guidelines for adult education, it can be considered that this conception does not break with the historical processes of domination that constitute the Brazilian society.