Saberes e fazeres coletivos na educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

This work presents the results of a research that took place in the classrooms of the Municipal Program for Adult Education (MPAE) in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais (Brazil). The main objective of the research was to apprehend and reflect about knowledge and practices of teachers of Youth and Adult Education (YAE), seeking to understand how they fit in school routine, seized from three key dimensions: the organizational, the educational, and the socio-political-cultural. For guiding the search, we opted for a qualitative approach , crossing crossing bibliographical, documentary, and oral sources, making use of ethnographic research (ANDRÉ, 1995). In the development of this research, the history of the establishment of YAE in Brazil allowed us to focus on public policies designed and implemented in the 90 s and their impacts on the organization and on the daily life of the school, highlighting the specificities of this kind of work in the neoliberal context of Brazilian education. Focusing on the everyday practice of the profession of two teachers from the MPAE, the proposal of a collective work emerged as a possibility of (re)signifying the teaching practice and contribute to a rethinking of the teacher about his/her role as teacher of social subjects, strengthening educational relationships that are inclusive and transformative.