After a brief review of the literature on the theme and some information on the production of teaching material for adult and youth education elaborated in the 1980's, this article presents different materials produced in the 1990s as the political-pedagogical program of the Workers' Central Organization (CUT); and the teaching materials it produced for the Integrar (To Integrate) and Integração (Integration) programmes; and the pedagogical proposal elaborated by the Landless Rural Workers' Movement - MST - and the material used in its rural camps and settlements; and the concept of totalities of knowledge in the books Palavras de trabalhador (Worker's word), published by the System of Adult and Youth Education of the Municipality of Porto Alegre, products of the educational experience with young and adult workers. It concludes exploring points that are common to all the studied teaching materials.
Adult and youth education; Teaching material