Public Policies of/for Youth and Adult Education: a review of publications on the CAPES Journals Website

ABSTRACT This article, part of a larger research entitled Fundaments and recurrent authors in the field of Youth and Adult Education in Brazil: the construction of an electronic glossary, aims at presenting a review of publications on Public Policies of/for Youth and Adult Education (YAE) in Brazil, with Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior [Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel] (CAPES) Journals Portal as information base. The research applies a qualitative, bibliographic approach and type of the State of Knowledge type as defined by Romanowski and Ens (2006), and dialogues, from theoretical point of view, with the concept of public policy by Souza (2006), Teixeira (2002) and Mainardes (2018). In broadly terms, the study revealed the complexity that involves the YAE public policies analysis, due to the nuances and categories multiplicity, further associated themes.