Caminhos e descaminhos da alfabetização: história de vida dos alunos da primeira fase da EJA da escola José Pedroso de Deus, no município de Ipameri-GO (2020 - 2022)

Abstract

Youth and Adult Education (EJA) is a teaching modality made up of students who, for some reason, were prevented from accessing school at the appropriate age, facing many difficulties throughout their lives, and who at some point return to the classrooms seeking for better opportunities in the labor market and for the rescue of citizenship. Starting from the following questions: What are your motivations when enrolling in EJA? What are the main difficulties in staying in the classroom and completing your studies? What stories and experiences do they bring with them? That through this, we seek to know the reality of students in the first phase of EJA at José Pedroso de Deus school, in the municipality of Ipameri-Goiás, and understand how access to education can contribute to the citizenship emancipation of these subjects. This is a qualitative study, developed from the bibliographical review and the analysis of interviews, presenting life history as a methodology. The study showed that the classes of the I Phase of EJA, from 2020 - 2022, in the investigated school context, are diverse in terms of student profile, consisting mainly of women and students over 40 years old. Among the main motivations presented by them to resume their studies, the desire to learn to read and write, and the search for better jobs in the job market, stand out. The main obstacles faced for staying in the classroom and continuing with studies were daily fatigue resulting from work; household chores and family care. In addition, it showed that students faced many learning difficulties during remote teaching, in the pandemic period of COVID - 19, due to the lack of teacher monitoring, highlighting its importance in the teaching-learning process of students in the literacy phase. We also verified that the teachers of the I Phase of EJA did not receive continuing education courses to work in EJA in the corresponding period.