Educação de jovens e adultos em espaços não escolares: estudo de caso de uma regional pedagógica da rede municipal de educação de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

The offer of Education for Youth and Adults in non-school, by the municipal Belo Horizonte, called External Classes, prioritizes care for individuals who do not attend school for various reasons, such as improper schedules to attend classes, distance from his home to the school environment, and even a refusal to return to the space that excluded these subjects the right to education. This paper describes and analyzes the educational policy of offering the EJA in non school in Municipal School of Belo Horizonte, having as the methodological case study of a regional teaching. The instruments used for data collection include: semi-structured interviews with those responsible for the design and implementation of the policy, as well as focus groups with students and teachers of the classes outside of selected regional, documentary research, based on the analysis of official documents on policy and records of monitoring conducted by EJA pedagogical teaching staff of regional management education, and participant observation. Initiated by a rescue of the milestones at global, national and local, which from the 1990s, ensured the right to education throughout life and recognized the EJA as a method of Basic Education, describing how was the implementation in Belo Horizonte, the alternative care of EJA in non school. Then, in chapter two, we present and analyze data collected in the field research, uncovering the possibilities, limitations and challenges of educational policy in relation to the diversity of demand that caters for that, we turn to Paulo Freire (2005, 2006, 2010), Maria Clara Di Pierro (2000, 2001), Moacir Gadotti (2003), Leoncio Soares (2001, 2007), Sérgio Haddad (2000, 2002) and Miguel Arroyo (2005, 2007), authors who have devoted their attention to discuss public policies for the EJA. Finally, in chapter three, we present the Educational Action Plan with proposals to improve the policy analyzed. The aim of this research is a greater understanding of the specifics of the EJA and their care in non-school, offering a reflection on the ideals of popular education and the concept of lifelong education in relation to current policy enrollment in the municipal Belo Horizonte.