Enrique Dussel's Ethics and Youth and Adult Education: Dialogue with a Liberating End

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the Education of Youth and Adults (EJA) in Brazil, having as main reference the Ethics of Liberation by Enrique Dussel, which constitutes a daily ethics in favor of the vast majority of humanity excluded in the context of globalization. Methodologically, the article is the result of a bibliographic research, which brings contributions from the Ethics of Liberation by Enrique Dussel and intellectuals engaged with EJA, including Arroyo, Di Pierro and Haddad. It starts with the understanding that Dussel's Ethics is in favor of the subjects who seek EJA as students, who in the Brazilian case, in general, are people from the lower classes, who did not have access to school, in the age of the so-called schooling (from 06 to 14 years old) or were “dropped out” of the school. People excluded by the social-economic system and marginalized when labeled “illiterate”, demarcating an age and socio-cultural specificity (Oliveira, 2011).