Difficulties, expectations, and characteristics of returning to school in PROEJA students

Abstract

This study is exploratory research with a qualitative-quantitative approach and demonstrates the socioeconomic characteristics, educational aspects, difficulties and expectations of students who are 40 years old or older in the group of the Technical Course in Accommodation – PROEJA at IFPA - Campus Santarém. The research participants who met the criteria were selected from the enrollment list and later interviewed in person through a questionnaire containing 26 open and closed questions divided into two groups: I-Socioeconomic characterization, with 15 questions and II - Educational aspects, difficulties and expectations, containing 11 questions. The results include the totality of the interviewed population being female, married and separated, unemployed, considering their learning capacity as regular, and having as main difficulty during the classes, the understanding of the teachers' explanations.