A evasão na EJA: as vozes dos estudantes evadidos da Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Prof. Ary Couto (Bagé, RS)

Abstract

This paper aims to perform a research in order to identify the main issues of school dropouts in the Elementary School of Young and Adult Education Sistem (EJA) at Prof. Ary Couto public elementary school from Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Starting from a data survey conducted by PNAD (National Sample Survey of Households) and IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geometry and Statistics) with the most recent numbers of school dropouts and a historical trajectory of EJA in Brazil, than following by the specifics of teaching young and adults. The methodology of research applied in this paper is also based on the work of Health Communitary Agent (Agente comunitário de saúde), conducted by the researcher in the public health city network, taking action in the neighborhood in which the school is located. The results go for an account that exalts the student’s voice in a status of evasion, allowing reflections on the best measures to be taken and the most difficult aspects to be transposed by those excluded from the school system.