Juventudes e escolarização: um estudo de caso sobre o fenômeno da “repetência”

Abstract

The present study aimed at analyzing the experiences with the process of "school repetition" of young students through their trajectories in schooling and youth status. The methodology used was a qualitative research, a case study carried out with students of two classes of the 3rd year of high school, one in the day shift and the other at night, in a public school in Maceió-Al. The young students subject to this study had in their pedagogical baggage a history of repetitions and consequently, it entailed a distortion of age / school grade. The choice of subjects was based on identifying how such a process occurred, aiming to understand the possible relations between this reality and the juvenile condition, the importance attributed to the school and its schooling process and, finally, what it would be for the researched to be a young "repeater". The study unfolded in the following central problematic: What are the meanings built on the phenomenon of "repetition" by two groups of young students enrolled in public high school in Maceió, in the day and night shifts? It is concluded from the research that although these young students have "repetition" histories they do not recognize themselves as different from the other students of their school; the condition of youth and the experience of entering the labor market impact the way they live and create expectations about schooling in the belief that this is a means to improve their quality of life; and finally that the senses built on "repetition" are present in their statements as an individual blame, and or as causality of external factors as a collateral factor of the social reality where they are inserted