YOUNG PEOPLE IN HIGH SCHOOL: REGULAR MODALITY FOR YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATION

This paper analyzes factors that have led more and more young people to migrate from regular high school education to high school in the Youth and Adult Education (EJA) modality to investigate what motivates this process. To this end, we consider the phenomenon of the juvenilization of Youth and Adult Education, the school flow indicator called “migration to Youth and Adult Education” and the recognition of the centrality of the young adult students as the subject of the educational process and of high school. The research data is the result of discussion groups with young adult students of the third segment of EJA in the Federal District who migrated from regular high school. The reconstruction of these data followed the analysis steps established by the Documentary Method of interpretation. The studies refer to the investigation and understanding of the collective orientations of these young adult students and reflect about their worldviews, to understand the reasons that lead them to attend the last stage of basic education in EJA, to identify adequacies and inadequacies in the ways high school education is offered, and to enable approximations between youth and high school. The results, point to the existence of patterns that, although sharing aspects which are similarly present in the social environment, reverberate in the lives of these young people and in the condition of EJA students, are constituted by different educational orientations, revealing these students’ different reasons to be in EJA and to graduate high school in this modality.