ABSTRACT:
Juvenilization is a process that has affected Youth and Adult Education (YAE) for decades, imposing challenges of different orders. This work intends to understand how a science teacher builds her curriculum facing the presence of young people. It relies on authors from the field of curriculum studies, such as Sacristán and Arroyo, building its context of intelligibility by moving methodologically from the narration of the life oral history and ethnographic-inspired observations in the YAE classes. It concludes that the students are central in the teacher’s concern, in the sense of guaranteeing their interest, learning and even presence in the school. However, this does not mean that youths appear in the building of the curriculum as a structuring principle. There is a tension at play that the study seeks to characterize.
Keywords:
Juvenilization of YAE; Curriculum; Youth and Adult Education, Science Education