DOES YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATION GENERATE FINANCIAL IMPACT? A STUDY IN THE LIGHT OF BRAZILIAN POLITICAL-EDUCATIONAL AND LEGAL THOUGHT

Abstract

This article examines Youth and Adult Education (YAE) under the lens of Brazilian legal thought, emphasizing public funding, state omission, and historical reparation. The study is qualitative in nature and grounded in discourse analysis and the transversality of knowledge. It connects the fields of education, law, and public policy to understand why YAE, although legally recognized, remains a low-priority policy. Drawing on authors such as Freire, Gadotti, Saviani, Cipriano, Diniz, Reale Jr., and rulings by the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF), the article argues that YAE must be repositioned as a structuring and binding policy. The text sustains that the right to education is often denied in YAE through deliberate state omission, lack of adequate funding, and poor coordination among government branches. It also emphasizes the importance of listening to YAE subjects, applying distributive justice, and valuing epistemic and territorial diversity. It concludes that effective implementation of YAE requires ethical, political, and legal commitment, as a constitutional duty of the democratic state.