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STATE OF KNOWLEDGE: ACADEMIC PRODUCTIONS ABOUT ACCESS OF GRADUATES FROM YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATION (EJA) IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Youth and Adult Education; EJA; EJA graduates; Access; College education.

The main objective of this dissertation work is to analyze the access of graduates from EJA (Educação de Jovens e Adultos - Youth and Adult Education) to higher education, from the perspective of theses and dissertations from the Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT - Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology), from 1996 to 2022. In order to investigate the answers to the problem of this research, which consisted of understanding how the academic entry of graduates from EJA has been conceived through studies and researches in the area of education nationwide, the State of Knowledge methodology was used, which had the book Estado do Conhecimento: teoria e prática, written by the authors Morosini, Kohls-Santos and Bittencourt as its theoretical and instrumental contribution. The results obtained in this study revealed that the topic regarding the access of EJA graduates to higher education has been scarcely studied in the country, given that, in addition to the fact that few works found and analyzed are, for the most part, master's theses, they are, only from higher education institutions from the Central-West, Southeast and South regions, thus, institutions from the North and Northeast regions haven’t been shown. It was also found that these works brought theoretical insights into different social and educational dimensions when discussing the possibility of EJA graduates accessing higher education, since EJA covers an extensive diversity in terms of its target audience. This study came to the conclusion that, upon entering higher education, EJA graduates will face challenges caused by the academic environment, which are encountered from the accessing process to remaining at this educational level. That said, to overcome these challenges and achieve academic training, it is necessary to have incentives from individual, interpersonal and governmental processes.