EJA e educação popular: uma experiência a partir do PMEA – Programa Municipal de Educação de Jovens e Adultos da Prefeitura de Uberlândia-MG (1990-2016).

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze the Municipal program of Youth and Adult Education (PMEA) in Uberlândia-MG, from 1990 to 2016, comprising how it constituted, implemented and developed the program, also making an overview of EJA in Brazil and Municipality of Uberlândia from the Constitution of 1988, the moment in which the redemocratization of teaching is discussed after the military civil dictatorship. Starting from the different relationships between youth and adult education and popular education, this paper presents the concepts of popular, social and community education, opening up to the discussion of the characteristics that approximate and distance the Pmea of these molds. In the presentation of the program, the characteristics and specificities of its organization are presented, its performance as an educational program and identified the existing profiles of the subjects that are inserted. The study was conducted using documental and bibliographic research documents were consulted in the archives of the Youth and Adult Education center located in the Municipal Centre for Educational Studies and projects ( CEMEPE), having also as sources interviews with pupils and students, besides observation visits in the various spaces of the program, being recorded information on how these spaces constitute. Finally, the work seeks to retract the importance that the PMEA has for those who were not schooled in their own age or were insufficiently and discussing, from the stories of these people, the reasons that they had been deprived of school education , besides being for many a space of psychosocial coexistence.