MATHEMATICS IN LIFE OF STUDENTS IN EDUCATION YOUNG AND ADULTS: CHALLENGES, FACES AND POSSIBILITIESMathematics Teaching. Youth and Adult Education (EJA). Mathematics Teaching in Youth and Adult Education.
In the trajectory of Youth and Adult Education, Paulo Freire's ideas played a fundamental role in understanding this type of teaching in terms of ways and methods to read and write literacy, but also in the sense of to develop critical thinking in society. Thus, the purpose of this research problematize from the students of the EJA, the non-school knowledge regarding mathematics as well as the relationship with the official documents of the EJA, in groups of Young and Adult Education of CEEJA Colonel Jorge Teixeira de Oliveira of Rolim de Moura / RO, aiming to: verify the official documents (Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education - LDB, National Curriculum Parameters - PCN, National Curriculum Guidelines of Basic Education - DCN, Pedagogical Political Project - PPP of EJA, and Teachers Annual Plan) in relation to the curriculum of mathematics teaching for the teaching modality of Youth and Adult Education; to characterize the socio-professional and economic profile of CEEJA Youth and Adult Education high school groups Colonel Jorge Teixeira de Rolim de Moura / RO; to analyze from the students of the Youth and Adult Education of the CEEJA Colonel Jorge Teixeira de Rolim de Moura / RO, the relation of the non-school and school knowledge in dialogue with the Mathematics in the context of the social environment. For the methodological course, the research is subject to the assumptions of the dialogical perspective, using the documentary research technique, and before the data collection instruments, observation were used; forms and interviews, with the discussions of theorists: Paulo Freire (1987); Fonseca (2005, 2006); Ribeiro (2014); Pimentel (2001), among others. The context and the participants of the research were the students of the high school classes of the Youth and Adult Education of the CEEJA Colonel Jorge Teixeira de Rolim de Moura /RO. Data collection took place in three stages: firstly, the official documents (LDB, PCN, DCN, EJA PPP, and the Teachers' Annual Plan) of Youth and Adult Education were verified so that it was possible to verify how these documents value the non-school and / or informal knowledge that the public of the EJA modality acquire in relation to mathematics outside the school context; Subsequently, the classes were observed to meet them and then the form was applied to characterize the students' socio-professional and economic profile; and finally from the forms, the interviews were conducted seeking to understand from the students of the EJA, the non-school and school knowledge in dialogue with mathematics in the context of the social environment. In terms of partial results, it was possible to identify that referring to the official documents, they protect the right of the students of the Youth and Adult Education modality, the access to quality education as well as the regular school, as well as an education that understands that it uses of students' everyday situations. It is also emphasized that there was an understanding of the students 'socioeconomic and professional profile, so that it was possible to propose relationships of these students' daily life with mathematics teaching. Thus, at the end of this research, it is hoped that it will enable reflections to teachers and researchers about the importance of the interface between previous and / or non-school knowledge with the knowledge addressed in the classroom of students of Young Adult Education, as well as contribute to think and seek solutions with regard to the teaching-learning process to meet the peculiarities of EJA, especially in relation to mathematics.