This text approaches some points about the contemporary curricular reflection, referring to the study of new forms of curricular organization bound for the youth and adults education. In its beginning, the text brings a brief approach of the history of the youth and adults education in Brasil, aiming to place the reader in the debate. Then, using the relates of real situations lived by the author or by close people, I discuss some of the main problems that can be perceived in the curricular practices developed in the youth and adult education, as the childish treatment of the students or the inadequate contents or way of treating them and the speech used as well. From this, a theoretical reflection about how I understand the process of weaving the knowledge is developed, where I intent to contribute to the reflection around the possibilities of overcoming these problems. Finally, I discuss some of the conceptions of curriculum e yours fundaments to reach the proposition of a debate about the possibilities of new curricular drawings that may be more fitted to the students than the traditional proposes.
adult education; practiced curriculum; curricular organization for adult education