Historical meanings of young adults education and public policies of integration in professional education with schooling: Dialogues between Brazil and France

Abstract

Using a cross-face study of adult education in France from the perspective of profes-sionalization and the conception of training instituted by the National Integration Program of the Professional Education with the Basic Education in the Youth and Adult Education Modality (Programa Nacional de Integração da Educação Profis-sional com a Educação Básica na Modalidade Educação de Jovens e Adultos) in Brazil, this article sought to reflect on the meanings of integrated training for vocational training combined with increased enrollment for youth and adults as a political strategy to serve this public. The aim was to promote a theoretical discussion about the pedagogical conception and practices that respond to the specificities of the subjects of the youth and adult education, establishing a dialogue with experiences of integrated formation already consolidated in France, in order to make possible contributions to the epistemological field inaugurated by program.