THE CHALLENGES OF RURAL EDUCATION IN MULTI-GRADE CLASSES OF YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATION

Abstract

Rural Education is designed to serve the population that lives in the countryside. One reality inserted in this educational context is multi-grade classes, in which teachers work with two or more classes in the same space/time. In this sense, this paper aims to discuss the challenges of rural education in multi-grade classes of Youth and Adult Education. The specific objectives included identifying whether the teacher uses specific strategies to work with EJA students from the perspective of the culture of the countryside, verifying whether there is continuing education for the teacher of Youth and Adult Education in multi-grade classes in the countryside and analyzing the challenges faced by the teacher of this modality. For this work, the methodology used was bibliographic research, which analyzed 3 articles extracted from the Google Scholar platform, using the period for publications from 2020 to 2024. Thus, of the 590 articles found about the challenges of EJA in Youth and Adult Education, only 67 addressed the challenges of EJA in education in the field and of these, only 3 met the purpose of general coverage of the theme. The articles analyzed showed the need for investment in continuing education for teachers working in rural EJA, so that multi-grade classes receive quality education that takes into account their specific reality.