TRAJECTORY AND CHALLENGES OF YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATION IN THE INTEGRATED TECHNICAL COURSE AT THE IFRN MOSSORÓ CAMPUS
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https://doi.org/10.34019/2447-5246.2025.v30.49291Abstract
This article presents a case study that critically analyzes the historical trajectory and institutional challenges of the Integrated Technical Course in Building Construction - Youth and Adult Education (EJA), offered by the IFRN Mossoró Campus between 2006 and 2025. The research combines quantitative and qualitative data, based on document analysis, statistical surveys, and questionnaires applied to teachers, to investigate indicators of retention, completion, institutional effectiveness, and efficiency, as well as teachers' perceptions regarding training, pedagogical practices, and improvement proposals. The results reveal a scenario marked by high dropout and retention rates, low completion and effectiveness rates, and persistent weaknesses in both initial and continuing teacher education. The lack of articulation between general and technical education emerges as a central barrier to the consolidation of an integrated and contextualized pedagogical approach. The analysis indicates that the advances achieved are mostly limited to infrastructure improvements, without consistent impacts on formative processes. Teachers' suggestions emphasize the urgency of structural measures, such as curricular modularization, development of integrative pedagogical projects, strengthening of continuing education, and adaptation of pedagogical practices to the reality of working students. Based on critical frameworks of integrated professional education, the study concludes that overcoming the challenges of EJA requires profound transformations guided by an omnilateral and emancipatory educational policy, sustained by institutional commitment to the right to integral and socially referenced education.
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