Pernambuco, Marta Maria Castanho AlmeidaNogueira, Anete Alves da Silva2014-12-172013-05-092014-12-172012-09-24NOGUEIRA, Anete Alves da Silva. Young and adult education in the city of Natal: a reflection about failure and success. 2012. 69 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2012.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/14560This essay proposes to research the success and failure in Education for Youth and Adults (known as EJA), based on the approval, failure and evasion rates in public schools belonging to the city of Natal, RN. Reflecting upon the reasons why some pupils from this program were dropping out of school while others kept on studying was a necessity. Therefore, we seek to know these subjects and their school environment. In the search this data, we set off by approaching the EJA politics, going through a historical path, highlighting significant facts to Brazilian and Natal history. While bringing together the pieces of information for this essay, we were lead to the State and City Education Department, in search of approval, failure and evasion rates from the year 2009. Based on these rates, two schools have been chosen: the first with a high failure rate and the second with a failure rate lower than the city average. The schools work was researched throughout the year 2010, through interviews with pupils, teachers, managers and employees; school files analysis; the analysis of files the establish the rules for EJA programs in the city of Natal. Nethertheless, this essay points to inner and outer factors which might come to contribute to the failure or success of pupils from the researched schools, emphasizing that the difference between those are in the team work present in the school with low failure rateapplication/pdfAcesso AbertoEducação de jovens e adultos. Aprovação. Evasão. ReprovaçãoEducation for youth and adults. Approval. Evasion. FailuremasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO