Caminhos do MOBRAL à EJA no município de Uberlândia (1970-1996)

Abstract

This research aimed to understand the teaching of young people and adults in the state of Minas Gerais and Uberlândia, in the period from 1970 to 1996. To do so, we had to take into account the policies implemented, in this period, by the federal government, a moment in which we live with the Dictatorship, the New Republic and severe economic instability, at the same time that in the sphere of education, we experienced at Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) processes that aspired, from a directive perspective, to adapt to the globalized world, through the qualification of the workforce. In this sense, from 1964 onwards, the military government, aiming to mitigate the impact of its violent actions on the population, decided to invest in far-reaching projects. After the extinction of these initiatives, states and municipalities inherited youth and adult literacy policies, following specific issues of each region and their respective administrations. Thus, in this research, we show our vision of the paths taken by EJA until its municipalization, starting with Mobral (1970), and ending with the edition of LDBEN nº 9.394/1996, which recognized EJA as a teaching modality. In this way, we undertook a bibliographic and documentary analysis of theses and dissertations produced on our research object, having the History of Education as its structure and Cultural History as its methodological basis, also benefiting from Oral History, adding voices, which we compiled from different works of research. This works belongs to the History and Historiography line of the Faculty Education – Universidade Federal de Uberlândia.