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 is marked by the presence of youth, adults and seniors who left school before graduating from high school and it is characterized as a learning modality that faces the challenge of reinventing to respond to the needs of the diversity of its audience. In this sense, the current investigation has, as its main aim, to understand an innovative experience for this audience, the Distance Education in a public school in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the Centro Municipal de Referência de Educação de Jovens e Adultos (CREJA). More specifically, it aims to record a short history of the Youth and Adult Education in the last years until we reach Distance Education at CREJA, identify the school path of youth, adults and seniors who resume their studies in the modality of Distance Education, the relation of these students with new technologies and, at last, understand the reasons why youth, adults and seniors return to school specifically in the modality of Distance Education. The research will start to be developed from the memories and narratives of the young, adults and seniors, men and women students who lived the experience of Distance Education at CREJA and it is based in the principles of Narrative Research, by Candinin and Connelly (2015), with important collaborators like Abrahão (2003), Benjamim (1985), Fernandes (2019), Freitas and Ghedin (2015) and Souza and Cabral (2015).