RESEARCH IN YOUTH AND ADULT MATHEMATICS EDUCATION WITH A FOCUS ON DIDACTIC-METHODOLOGICAL ALTERNATIVES OF TEACHING: A STATE OF THE ART OF DEFENDED DISSERTATIONS IN BRAZIL (1985-2015)
Mathematics Education; Youth and Adult Education (EJA); Dissertations; Didactics and Teaching Methodologies.
This research aims to investigate how research is configured in Mathematics Education for Youth and Adults with a focus on didactic-methodological teaching alternatives in Youth and Adult Education (EJA), defended in stricto sensu postgraduate programs in Brazil (1985 -2015). With regard to theoretical contributions, we highlight its support in authors such as Haddad and Di Pierro (2000), Gadotti (2008) and Di Pierro (2005; 2017), who discuss in their research on EJA; D'Ambrosio (1997), Miguel et al. (2003), Fiorentini and Lorenzato (2006) and Ponte (2008), who investigate about Mathematics Education; Jóia (1997), Fonseca (2005) and Ribeiro (2014), who deal in their studies with Mathematics Education for Young Adults; and Fonseca (2001), Bail (2002), Bassanezi (2002), D'Ambrosio (2005), Ribeiro (2007), Biembengut (2009) and Mello (2015) who discuss didactic-methodological alternatives. Methodologically, this research is characterized as being of the state of the art type, based on Romanowski and Ens (2006), with a qualitative approach, according to Bogdan and Biklen (1994) and with an exploratory and bibliographic character based on Fiorentini and Lorenzato (2006). Regarding the analysis material, it should be noted that although a search for theses and dissertations was carried out in the database of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), Public Domain and in the In digital libraries of stricto sensu postgraduate programs in Brazil, theses were not found that made up the object of investigation of this study, so the material for analysis consists of dissertations that discuss the Mathematics Education of Young People and Adults, especially with a focus in didactic-methodological teaching alternatives in EJA. As results of the research carried out, the following can be highlighted: from a total of 260 investigations dealing with Mathematics Education for Youth and Adults in the period analyzed, 83 are focused on the focus on didactic-methodological teaching alternatives in EJA, and of these: 54 focused on in the didactic-methodological alternatives of the Mathematical Education universe that can be inserted in the context of EJA and 29 emphasized the didactic-methodological alternatives that can be used thinking about the peculiarities of the EJA public. It is worth mentioning that with regard to studies that focused on didactic-methodological alternatives in the universe of Mathematics Education that can be inserted in the context of EJA, among the topics covered, the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for teaching stands out. of Mathematics at EJA, Mathematical Modeling and Mathematical Problem Solving. It is worth pointing out here a gap in the discussions regarding the History of Mathematics as a didactic-methodological alternative for the teaching of Mathematics for EJA, since no research was found that raises this issue. Regarding the studies that discussed the didactic-methodological alternatives that can be used thinking about the peculiarities of the EJA audience, there was a broad defense of cultural baggage recognition, valuing the prior knowledge of students, especially EJA students, since this audience brings with it significant life experiences. Another very strong element present in these researches is the construction or analysis of teaching material taking into account the context of government programs such as the National Textbook Program for Youth and Adult Education - PNLD-EJA, National Program for the Inclusion of Youth – PROJOVEM and the Program for the Integration of Professional Education to High School in the Youth and Adult Education Modality – PROEJA. Something relevant to highlight as a gap is the fact that there is no research that discusses the school reminiscences of EJA students.