YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATION:

CHALLENGES TO TEACHING GEOGRAPHY

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Youth and Adult Education (EJA) is a modality of Basic Education that encompasses those who did not have the opportunity to complete a phase of school life in the so-called normal time. It is divided into three stages, covering Elementary School I and II and High School. In this text, the challenges regarding the teaching-learning process of geographic contents will be approached, with emphasis on those that directly involve the use of Cartography for students of the III stage, which corresponds to High School. The interest in the subject is related to our work for almost two decades in this type of teaching. Understanding the advances and setbacks regarding the recognition of EJA as a modality of Basic Education, emphasizing the creation of the Secretariat for Continuing Education, Literacy and Diversity (SECAD) in 2004 and subsequent extinction in 2019, recognizing the difficulties faced by students and teachers to enhance the teaching-learning process of geographic contents that directly involve Cartography are the objectives of this study. The methodological procedures adopted will be theoretical research on authors and works on teaching Geography and Cartography in EJA as well as documental research to raise information on the subject. An analysis of the matrix of competences and skills in Geography will be carried out for the III stage used by schools in the state network of Goiás, which offer EJA in the face-to-face modality.

Keywords: EJA. Geography Teaching. Cartography.