Current programmes and projects in the field of Adult and Youth Education reveal different ways of understanding and apprehending the meanings and needs of the varied publics who seek such programmes and of attempting to ensure less the perspective of lifelong learning and more the basic right to education systematically denied to so many Brazilians. Based on this initial premise, the research explores the different forms in which six organizations have formally stated their propositions as well as carried out their practical work in this field. Such organizations are characterized by being either public or non-governmental, or pertaining to the social movement or to the S System (SESC, SESI, SENAR). The aim of this study is to comprehend such postulates and practices in the light of national and international policies of adult and youth education as well as the connections, meanings, nexus, articulations and overlapping which are produced between them and beyond the limits of these organizations in the complex social network. Within the perspective of rights, this investigation seeks to penetrate the different layers of reality in order to allow the productions subjacent to the programmes and projects to emerge with a view to mapping the complexity of those practices and reveal those elements which are constitutive and institutive of their conception.
adult and youth education; right to education; literacy
