Jovens e adultos na educação a distância : uma perspectiva disposicionalista

This research is the result of work done in the Education, Communication and Technology (ETEC) searching area, at the Graduate Program at the University of Brasilia (UnB), coordinated by Professor Dr. Carlos Alberto de Sousa Lopes. This work aims, through a look on youth and adult education in distance learning EJA/EaD, to identify opportunities that these two learning modalities have provided to some of its egresses. This work is the result of a qualitative survey with egresses individuals from EJA in the distance modality offered by Centro de Educação de Jovens e Adultos da Asa Sul – CESAS (Youth and Adults Education Center), in Brasília DF. We have sought to identify the contribution they brought to the schooling process of these individuals and how they have influenced their life trajectory. The research seeks to offer the possibility of another look into the social reality of the egresses from EJA in the distance modality. Their stories, their life conditions, their school path. That way, focusing on the individual, we have sought, through their experiences reports, to understand the circumstances that have enabled a change in their school trajectories. In the research, we have approached EJA individuals and their specificities using Pierre Bourdieu’s and Bernard Lahire’s sociological elements. We believe these approaches will allow us to learn important and significant aspects of their life trajectories. In our work we seek, through interviews, an approach to sociological portraits of graduates subjects EJA/EaD, seeking to understand certain aspects of socialization that have been incorporated, inherited capital and habitus that influenced the schooling process. Considering the analysis, we could infer that the school is still an institution able to give opportunities to improve people’s life conditions, and, therefore, there is still hope for a more democratic school. The work appears in our study as an element that influences the abandonment, as in returning and continuing studies. The labor market by requiring better training influences and motivates to returning to school and completing the schooling process.