ANDRADE, F. J.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4782860601349053; ANDRADE, Fabiano José de.
Résumé:
The teaching experience in the public school system in the city of Toritama, Agreste
Pernambuco is the starting point of this research. The municipality known as the
Capital do Jeans has in manufacturing the main engine of its economy and one of
the main features of its daily life. With regard to education, in the stage of high school
specifically, we seek to investigate how young people reconcile school activities and
obligations with cooking, and how they project their future based on this reality. The
study took place at the Estelita Timóteo school and covered 60 students linked to the
confection. Each student / worker answered a questionnaire that allowed them to
draw a socioeconomic profile, in addition to questions about the relationship between
work and school. Then, three interviews in the form of a focus group allowed a
qualitative approach to the data. It was observed that the work in the making is
marked by informality and has an impact on the social life of the city as a whole. In
the case of education, a good part of the school experience is thought or influenced
by the element of work, which allowed us to reflect on the concept of habitus in
Bourdieu (1992). The physical exhaustion resulting from long hours and the
difficulties of financially prospering with the cooking have discouraged some students
from remaining in the business, making them look for alternatives. In the group
researched, the desire to pursue a university career was mentioned with emphasis,
even though many do not have the reference of this provision in their families, hence
our reasoning, on this point, based on the thinking of Lahire (1995). Such a
disposition that grows among these students / workers seems to be a reflection, on
the one hand, of the lack of perspective with the confection and, on the other hand, of
the objective possibilities of a higher level career resulting from the university access
policies.
