A result of our research activities, this paper presents some food for thought that may help design curricular proposals specific to youth and adult education and break the current hegemonic tendencies. To do so, it first approaches youth and adult education as an expression of the power asymmetry between different social classes and groups. Next, it deals with the specificities of this education by highlighting the students' social class experience as a feature they bring to school. It finally addresses the issue of work in its ontological perspective, as the organizing axis of pedagogic proposals in the interests of the working class members who go to school to complement their basic schooling.
Youth and adult worker's education; Curriculum; Work and education