History and memory of EJA in Brazilian and Portuguese universities – Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries

Abstract

The history of Youth and Adult Education (EJA) has been consolidated as a field of research that has been gaining ground in the Academy, due to the match with different themes of historiography. This field, therefore, fosters practices and reflections that are not specifically incorporated in the school environment, as they go far beyond. It is a story told from the relations of gender, work, politics, body, among many other perspectives that reveal multiple facets of the same object. However, while we recognize that there has been a steep increase in research on the history of EJA in the last 20 years, there is still slight production compared to, for example, the history of primary education. Thus, this Dossier aims to promote a dialogue among researchers on the history of youth and adult education in Brazilian and Portuguese universities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.