Diálogos de professoras da educação de jovens e adultos: práticas pedagógicas no norte pioneiro paranaense

Abstract

Youth and Adult Education (EJA) is a teaching modality aimed at young people and adults who did not continue their studies or did not have access to Elementary and/or Secondary Education at the appropriate age. EJA provides access to school education through its own pedagogical model. Given the importance and need for continuing education through methodologies that transform technologies into pedagogical tools to be adapted to the reality of the EJA student, the present study had as an investigative focus the promotion of continuing education that provides teachers with the means for autonomous thinking and that facilitates the dynamics of participatory self-training through the development of a Technological Educational Process (PET) aimed at the EJA public, comprising ten Workshops. The PET was applied through ten workshops held with five professors, from northern Paraná, seeking to understand the idea of training and the methodological and curricular proposal of the evaluated professors. The Workshops were aimed at various topics, such as reflections on the identity of the EJA professional educator, legislation, school management, pedagogical and educational practices, professor training, different forms of evaluation, challenges facing EJA today and the importance of continuing education for professional educators working in EJA. During the practice of these Workshops it became evident that the educators already had a good experience in working with the EJA public. The applied PET presented great advantages to the training and specialization process of professionals who work with the EJA public, since all participants answered that the PET brought a lot of contribution, in terms of choosing the best way to evaluate these students, as well as to better organize and direct their pedagogical practices. In this way, PET, built from ten applied workshops, was able to achieve the objective of contributing to the improvement of choice in pedagogical practices aimed at the EJA public.