A look at the educational reality of education of young people and adults in times of pandemic

ABSTRACT

The teaching modality Youth and Adult Education (YLE) aims to provide opportunities for youth, adults, and the elderly who have not completed their studies in due time, to return to the classroom. In this research paper we seek to understand the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the teaching-learning process of the EJA modality, considering the need for social distance and the use of remote learning, analyzing how the permanence of students is facing these impacts. Constituted in a qualitative and dialectical perspective, it was produced following the descriptive and exploratory research types, through bibliographic research involving the authors Freire (2020), Silva (2017), Barreto (2004), among others. In addition, field research was conducted, of the case study type, carried out in the Acre Municipal School in the municipality of Porto Grande, Amapá State. It involved five teachers who work in EJA, two managers, six students who attend EJA, and three former students who dropped out of EJA, who answered a questionnaire with open and closed questions. The report includes an introduction where initial information about the research work carried out is presented, the state of knowledge and the methodological procedures that were adopted, the results and discussions about the data that were obtained from the investigation, the complementary didactic proposals arising from the research carried out, and, finally, the final considerations of the work carried out are described. The repercussions of the work indicate that the difficulties encountered in this teaching modality during the pandemic period are many: lack of technological knowledge on the part of teachers and students, lack of communication between teacher and student, the ignorance of words and the inability to formulate an addition account are issues that have worsened in the current pandemic scenario, contributing even more to the gap in the teaching-learning process.

Keywords: EJA; Pandemic Covid-19; Social Distance; Remote Learning.