Jovens Negras em Processo de Escolarização na EJA

Abstract

The aim of this work was to investigate the connection between school, gender and race social relations in the constitution of young black girls in the process of schooling in young and adult education in a public school in Goiania. The dissertation named - Young black girls in the process of schooling in young and adult education- is an academic production of a research field of Education, Society and Culture of the post-graduation program of Catolica University of Goias (UCG). This work aimed to investigate young black girls, the mechanisms of insertion in the schooling process and the meanings that they attribute to school and work. For this purpose, it was carried out a bibliographic and field research. The technical instruments used in the investigation were: a questionnaire, observation and recorded interviews with six female young people who aged between 14 to 25 years old, be a Regiao Leste de Goiania ( East Region) resident, be enrolled in young and adult education program and be black. From forty-seven students who answered the questionnaire, six of them, who considered themselves being black, were interviewed. The data and the obtained information as well as researches and theoretical studies in the field of youth, gender and race, specially those focused on young and adult education, provided important aspects regarding the condition and the situation of young black girls. In the results, the research allowed us to realize the socio-cultural dynamics of African girls as well as the significance of the school and the sense that they Arbues the unionists and the family, enabled us also some issues peculiar to the female condition, which showed that young black still have little access to schooling and, mostly, are in the informal labor market, particularly in domestic activities. The school is among the expectations and concerns of young black women as the value, necessity, duty or even search for acquisition of family autonomy and ability to ensure survival.