The problematic related to youth and adult education (EJA Program) had got significative relevance in Brazilian State scope. Such complexity is derivative of the emergent growth process of correlated forces in present level of capital expansion and consolidation; these processes show up neoliberal policy implantation, which originated, for example, State reform and productive structural rebuilding strategies. This article intends to show up that current programs developed by the Education Ministry (MEC) for working youth and adult education represent reorganization of the same logic that always guided youth and adult education policy in Brazil; a policy that consists in sociability necessity of capital itself. Thus, compensatory and superficial education policies reinforces non-commission of educational proposals for working class by economical reorganization that produces structural unemployment and new ideological formulations centered on enterprising and employment. This text focuses Literate Brazil Program as well as Doing School Program inside the complex of govern policy for education, intending to clear up how much such policy reasserts selective and excluding characteristics of Brazilian public education system.
youth and adult education; educational policy; work and education