PRESENCES AND DISTANCES: NARRATIVES OF STUDENTS WHO GRADUATED FROM DISTANCE EDUCATION IN CREJA-RJ
Youth and Adult Education, CREJA, Distance Education, Narratives
Youth and Adult Education (EJA) is marked by the presence of young people,
adults and elderly who have left school before completing elementary school. The
EJA is a teaching modality that faces the challenge of reinventing itself to meet
the needs of the diversity of its audience. In this sense, the main objective of this
research is to comprehend this innovative experience, the modality (EaD) in a
Public School in the City of Rio de Janeiro, the Municipal Reference Center for
Youth and Adult Education (CREJA). More specifically, it aims to write down a
brief history of the EJA in recent years until the creation of EaD of CREJA,
understand the reasons why young people, adults and the elderly returned to
school, specifically in the distance modality and systematize the instruments and
strategies used in the EaD modality in CREJA. The research was developed
taking the author's memories into account and based on the narratives of young
students, adults and the elderly, men and women who experienced the EaD in
CREJA between 2012 and 2016, also considering the reports from teachers who
were part of the team which participated in the creation, implementation, and
management of EaD at CREJA. The research is based on the principles of
Narrative Research by Clandinin and Connelly (2015), and on important
collaborators such as Souza (2019), Haddad (2008), Fávero (2006, 2007, 2011),
Freire (2011), Pacheco (2019), Certeau (2012), Alves (2001), Benjamin (1994,
2013), Coulon (1995), Preti (1996), Maturana (1998), Barbier (2007), Larrosa
(2014), Barthes (1976), Mészáros (2014), Fernandes (2012), Santos (2004,
Ardoino (1998) and Rancière (2011). The research revealed that the CREJA’s
EaD was an opportunity for many who had the desire to return to school however
were not available to attend the face-to-face mode with daily classes. It was also
revealed how important it was for these people to finish elementary school to
continue their studies and even dream of a university degree again.