Abstract

VENTURA, Jaqueline Pereira  and  OLIVEIRA, Francisco. Youth and Adult Education in Secondary School Enrollments amid the Neo-Developmentalist ideology crisis. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2021, vol.46, e61413.  Epub Nov 23, 2023. ISSN 1984-6444.  https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644461413.

This article aims to comprehend the decrease of enrollments in Youth and Adult Education (EJA) in secondary school in the last decade. It specifically investigates the offering of EJA/secondary schooling in Brazil from 2009 to 2019, relating it to some of the basis that guided public policies for this modality in that stage of basic education: how demand is delt with, the flexibilization of the type of offering and the expansion of certification. Next, it analyses some of the implications of those policies for the working class, in a period that encompasses the Neo-Developmentalist ideology crises and collapse and the rise of the ultraliberals to power. Based on quantitative data, documents and specialized literature, it seeks to reveal some of the aspects in the correlation of the forces responsible for the depletion and stagnation of enrollments in the EJA/secondary schooling in that period, which resulted in the strengthening of educational actions, like elaborating and/or improving national exams. The path of public policies formed by this correlation of forces has shown that such actions motivated certification, enhancing the non-formal education market. Therefore, it is concluded that, be it through means such as the National Secondary School Exam (Enem) or the National Youth and Adult Competence Certification Exam (Encceja), neo-liberalism and neo-developmentalism contributed to deflate the right to secondary education schooling of teenagers and adults of the working class and strengthened the bonds of the potential EJA student to the non-formal education and, in a broader sense, to the certification market.

Keywords : Youth and Adult Education; Secondary Education; Neo-Developmentalism.

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