Educate for life, educate for the being / Educar para vida, educar para o ser

Abstract

In the face of social change requiring many young people and adults returning to school in order to prepare themselves to face innumerous challenges posed by the current society, we see the need to build an education that leads to the integral formation of this subjects. Thus, this work aimed to contribute to the young and adults’ integral formation through the development of a globalized education of chemistry; for this purpose we conducted a qualitative research approach, a descriptive action-research type, with 15 young adults students, that took part of the Technical Craft Course of the Federal Institute of Alagoas (IFAL). The research revealed that the integral formation happens when one constructs different learning types and considers the human being in a global way. For this, it is necessary that the teaching contents dialogue with real life and the educational activities seek to stimulate emotional, aesthetic, creative and intuitive aspects of the students, which are essential for the student to make new discoveries about them selves and about their capabilities, in addition to acquiring new behaviors and attitudes towards their reality.

Keywords

• Global education
• Comprihensive training
• Youth and adults education