Youth and adult education in Brazil: The challenges of an invisible education

This essay's premise was to discuss the government policies that guided Youth and Adult Education in Brazil, covering the period from 1988 to 2006. The dialogue was carried out from a chronology of events that were not deepened in their theoretical dimension. -practice, but they served as subsidies to reflect the advances and setbacks that this type of education suffered over 18 years, through the governments of Fernando Collor de Mello, Itamar Franco, Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. By inference, it was reached the understanding that although the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recognizes the right of young people and adults to have access to quality schooling, aimed at the expectations of this public, it is necessary to continue public policies that transgress any and all manifestations of inequality, which represents an immense challenge, not being enough to increase the offer of this schooling, but the assumption of a collective political conscience that subverts the reactionary ideals that stigmatize this type of education as secondary or of lesser importance. in the Brazilian educational context.