As temporalidades na trajetória de trabalhadores do campo da região do Alto Paranaíba: a EJA que temos e a EJA que queremos

Abstract

Considering the specificities of your target audience is something that must be essential in Youth and Adult Education. Thus, it is necessary to identify and recognize the EJA target audience in order to respect the times, spaces and trajectories of these students who arrive at EJA classrooms. The present study aimed to understand how temporality appears and is perceived in the lives and schooling of rural workers in the context of Campos Altos, in the Alto Paranaíba region of Minas Gerais, and to discuss ways of articulating the temporality of these subjects' lives with the time of EJA in this school. To this end, the research, of a qualitative nature, had as subjects EJA students from the High School of the Padre Clemente de Maleto State School, in Campos Altos/MG, and some residents of the municipality, workers not enrolled in EJA. The application of a questionnaire to all EJA students in order to understand their profile and find among these rural workers who could participate in the interview, was added to the interview with workers not enrolled in EJA, as indicated by local residents. As a result, we observed that the EJA of the Padre Clemente de Maleto State School, in Campos Altos/MG, has the characteristic of receiving, primarily, very young students. The experiences of time experienced by the subjects participating in the research, enrolled or not in the institution, reflect a colonized time, which does not belong to them, which is/was taken from them and offered in rigid formats. Their trajectories, therefore, are permeated by multiple temporalities, highlighting that of survival, work and displacement, which suggests to us the need to reformulate the temporality of EJA to guarantee the permanence of those who arrive in it and to reach those who are still on the margins of education.