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COSTA, Eduardo Antonio de Pontes  e  SILVA, Rosângela Lopes da. THE SCHOOL IN THE SPOTLIGHT: DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH AND JUVENILES NARRATIVES IN FOCUS. Práx. Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.17, n.46, pp.397-419.  Epub 24-Dez-2021. ISSN 2178-2679.  https://doi.org/10.22481/praxisedu.v17i46.6854.

This study proposes to discuss the place that the school occupies in the lives of young people enrolled in the Youth and Adult Education (EJA) classes. This is a case study carried out at a school in the municipal network of Cabedelo, Paraíba. The individual form and the Class Diary for the years 2017 and 2018, as well as a semi-structured interview with the students of Cycles III and IV of the EJA support the empirical work. The results indicate that they go to the EJA classes, or are “obliged” to do so, due to the production of retention and school dropout promoted by the school. Data from Cycle III, Classes A and B, from 2017 and the Class “Única”, year 2018, referring to school performance, based on the knowledge of Portuguese, Mathematics, Geography, Sciences, History, English and Arts, point out that, of the 112 students, the average is 34 approved

students. And those from Cycle IV, considering the same knowledge, show an average of 46.14 approved, of 79 students enrolled in the years 2017 and 2018. Reconciling school and work, experimenting with heterogeneous classes and showing low school performance are concrete variables that point to the complexity of these asymmetric, school histories reactivated by discontinuous trajectories in Basic Education. Documentary sources and young people's narratives show that the historical problem of school retention and dropout is also the failure of the school to contribute, specifically, to the processes of exclusion and social inequality.

Palavras-chave : Youths; Documentary research; School trajectory..

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