Youth and Adult Education: a realistic perspective or a simple utopia?

Abstract

Youth and Adult Education should be an educational modality in order to achieve a responsible and adequate identity for all those who resort to it and not just a simple proposal for the insertion of an apprentice student from the labor market. The objective of this study, therefore, is to reflect on the need for a differentiated pedagogical proposal, which could be planned with an educational concept that responds widely to the needs of the young and adult population. For this reason, a critical analysis of the literature was carried out on the obstacles that involve the education of young people and adults, seeking to reflect on the dilemmas and perspectives present in this context, also pointing out the role of public education policies in Brazil that historically they have been marked by fragile and discontinuous experiences established in government negligence that were studied under the narrative review method. Regarding the results, it can be said that there is an apprehension for not adjusting the structural changes in the social order, thus promoting measures that clarify the consequences of the socio-political and economic options that come from the ruling class with its corporate capital interests. What can be concluded through the study is that the political-pedagogical obstacles faced in the realization of this teaching modality show that the education of young people and adults is inserted in notorious inaccuracies with setbacks in the few political advances that were being achieved, and now it is further intensified with the decisions recently taken by the federal government that portrays the ideological and political disinterest that greatly reinforces social and educational exclusion.