Knowledge and practices of teachers in the vocational education, in the of youth and adult education

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the theoretical-practical challenges posed to the teaching in the Informatics Maintenance and Support course that integrates the Basic Education component of the Technical Professional Education of Medium Level Program, in the modality of Youth and Adults Education (YAE). It is a government policy from Lula da Silva president, implemented in 2006. The subjects of the investigation were the teachers of the Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics courses that compose the general formation and of the Information Technology course that compose the professional formation. The research was carried out with a qualitative approach, in the form of a case study, and the interviews with the teachers, inspired by the comprehensive method, were the main source of the collected empirical material. Through the content analysis and considering that teaching is an immaterial work that is performed by / in human interactions, we seek, through teachers’ words, challenges and specificities that are imposed in professional education programs and in the YAE modality. The results pointed out that the initial teachers education for the YAE is still incipient and that living together (speaking and listening) with different languages and knowledge is a challenge.