What is Quality in Youth and Adult Education?

Abstract

This paper reports a case study focused on teaching quality as observed at a Center
for Supplemental Education (CES), an educational institution located in the
city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The investigation attempted to identify the
concept of quality in education today, the polysemy of meanings covered
by the term, the various approaches reported in the relevant literature as
well as the meanings it developed throughout the historical process. This
was done by means of an analysis of the various practices developed in that
space during the diversified movement of dealing with youth and adult
subjects, and the relation between such practices and the teaching quality
offered.