Experiência escolar e perspectivas do estudante/trabalhador de Toritama/PE: entre os desafios da formação e as exigências do trabalho na confecção.

Abstract

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.