Alunos do PROEJA: histórias de estudantes do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Sul-Rio- Grandense, Campus Sapucaia do Sul

Abstract

The present study central theme lies in an initiative that rises among the recent public policies of education in our country - the Programa Nacional de Integração da Educação Profissional com a Educação Básica na Modalidade de Educação de

Jovens e Adultos/PROEJA. The present research attempts to understand the path of working students who resume the experience of studying, attending such type of education, in order to complete their study in basic education level, at the same time longing for professionalizing teaching. It is also an objective of the present investigation verifying to what extent new policies, like PROEJA, have performed

practices associated to the formation of the citizen subject. Such program, initiated in 2006, attempts to recover a labor deficit in the economy productive sector and the

citizenship of young and adults who have entered the work life in their early ages. The research has been performed with students of Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Sul-Rio-Grandens