THE (IN)VISIBILITY OF ADULT EDUCATION IN THE BNCC: REPRODUCTION OF THE EXCLUSIONARY SOCIAL STRUCTURE

Abstract

Youth and Adult Education (YAE) constitutes a fundamental educational modality for ensuring the right to education in Brazil, particularly for individuals whose schooling trajectories were interrupted by historical processes of social inequality. However, recent debates indicate that the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC), the central normative document guiding the curricular organization of Brazilian basic education, presents significant gaps regarding this modality. This article critically analyzes the presence - or absence - of Youth and Adult Education within the BNCC, discussing the extent to which this invisibility may contribute to the reproduction of socially exclusionary structures in the educational field. The study is based on a bibliographic review and a documentary analysis of the BNCC and recent research on curriculum policies and Youth and Adult Education in Brazil. The findings indicate that the BNCC was developed with a strong focus on regular education aimed at childhood and adolescence, relegating Youth and Adult Education to a marginal position within the curricular debate. This absence reveals tensions between curricular standardization policies and the pedagogical specificities of the modality, whose students present educational trajectories marked by social, economic, and cultural inequalities. It is concluded that the invisibility of Youth and Adult Education in the BNCC is not merely a technical issue of curriculum policy, but rather reflects a historical process of educational marginalization that tends to reproduce social hierarchies within the Brazilian educational system.