Permanência escolar na educação de jovens e adultos: in(re)sistência pelo direito à educação

Abstract

This research was elaborated as an Academic Cooperation Program (Procad/Casadinho/CNPq) that involved the Federal Universities of Alagoas (Ufal), Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Uerj). Its locus was the Integrated Medium Level Technical Course in Handicraft (CTA), in the modality of the Integration Program of Professional Education to Basic Education in the form of Youth and Adults (Proeja), in a course that started in 2015 offered by the Federal Institute of Alagoas (Ifal), Maceió Campus, having as subjects five handicraftswomen-student-workers. This investigation aimed to understand the reasons that led those students of the class of 2015 to insist/resist to complete the Technical Course of Handicraft. It is a qualitative study with a focus on case study (MARFAN, 1986; NEVES, 1996), and also was used the life history method (QUEIROZ, 1998), centering on the interpretation of the narratives coming from the life history interviews (QUEIROZ, 1988), which allowed us to listen about the tactics (DE CERTEAU, 1998) practiced by the student subjects to stay in the course. In addition, we used the analysis of official documents as secondary sources (QUIVY; CAMPENHOUDT, 1998). The results showed us that the internal and external pedagogical practices developed by CTA, as well as the student assistance policy, the constant dialogue among the classmates and the encouragement of the family were decisive reasons for the artisans-workers to overcome their limits/situations and to conclude unprecedentedly the course in focus.