Education of Youth and Adults in Geography: an analysis of the curricular matrices of the undergraduate courses in Geography of the public universities of Rio de Janeiro, a look at the Baixada Fluminense
Geography teaching; youth and adult education, Baixada Fluminense; teacher training.
The Education of Youth and Adults (EJA) is a teaching modality provided for in the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education (LDB), intended for those who did not have access or continuity of studies in elementary and secondary education at their own age, and it is very important that educators of this modality understand their difficulties and needs. The graduate in Geography as a professional qualified to teach geography classes in the final years of elementary school and high school, is one of the educators who work with EJA in Brazil. the general objective of the research is to analyze and reflect on the need for a discipline that deals with the Education of Youth and Adults and the Teaching of Geography in the matrix of the undergraduate courses in Geography of the public universities of the Baixada Fluminense of Rio de Janeiro. The methodology is qualitative and starting from assumptions indicated by authors such as Milton Santos (2000), among others, it is intended to investigate the following central question: Does the student graduated or already active in basic education feel prepared to act in the classroom without the minimum training in Youth and Adult Education? In addition to the work with relevant references of EJA and Geography Teaching, we will apply questionnaires produced in GoogleForms about EJA in the public universities of the Baixada Fluminense of Rio de Janeiro, relating the lack of discipline with the impact suffered by these teachers/students of geography in the school scenario. We emphasize the relevance of understanding the history of EJA, demonstrating as a teaching modality and its main characteristic that is to value education throughout life. The public universities in the Baixada Fluminense have a relevant role for society, especially in the present, where we can analyze the relationship of students/teachers of the undergraduate courses in geography with the EJA.