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territory; educational trajectory; education of youth, adults, and the elderly; school geography
Through geographical and conceptual analysis, this search aimed to analyze and reveal the cycle that leads students to interrupt regular basic education. To accomplish this, we analyzed the reports of the subjects themselves who decided to resume schooling through the Youth, Adult and Elderly Education (EJA) modality, based on a study carried out at a Center for Youth, Adult and Elderly Education (CEJA), located in the south-central Zone of Manaus, Amazonas. It is important to point out that merely quantifying the standardized process known as dropout, in numerical terms, is insufficient. A deeper understanding of these frequent interruptions and their connections with various socio-territorial factors is essential; among them, housing, work, family purchasing power, lack of public schools and pedagogical support, as well as the absence or precariousness of leisure and cultural spaces in the school environment and the community. In order to explore the factors discussed in depth, the research employed dialectics as an analytical method, using bibliographical research, documentary analysis, and on-site interviews as methodological approaches.