A ESCOLARIZAÇÃO E O TEMPO NA VIDA DAS TRABALHADORAS/ESTUDANTES DO CEEBJA DE IRATI-PR

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the meanings of timeusage and schooling based on the perceptions of the women workers/students of CEEBJA, in the city of Irati, Parana. We understand that the women workers/students, that are the subject of this research, need to organize the time considering their paid jobs, studies, housework and family so that they can return to school and continue their studies and that this organization demanded and demands for these women choices throughout life. The EJA teaching modality proposal is the service to the part of the population that is out of the age considered correct for each level of education and that for various reasonshad to abandon going to school, being that, in the case of this research, the care with the house and children was the main reason declared by them. To analyze and comprehend the paths these women have gone through and how their choices have influenced or not on the time for study, as well as the meanings that schooling has for them, it was necessary to comprehend the reality in which they live. In this way, the methodological assumption of this research is Marx’ s social theory and its contribution in relation to the concept of work, as well as the category of totality, comprehended as the complex of social relations regarding their determinants and correlations, dynamics and contradictions. The research instruments used, at first, were the collection of quantitative data through the application of 95 questionnaires for all female students who were in the classes in the three shifts during one week. After that first approach seven workers/ students from CEEBJA of Irati were deeply interviewed. The purpose of the interview was to give voice to the reports of their experiences about the triple daily journey among product, reproductive, work and the school and what schooling means for them. Four categories were delimited from these interviews: 1) The family: the point of departure and arrival; 2) The violence in the lives of Marias; 3) Resilience and the decision of going on;and 4) Work, schooling and care: perceptions of the usage of time in the lives of Marias. The empirical data showed that for these women being at school means the resumption of life, a personal valuation and the valorization of them as women, but the dataalso make it clear that family is the great mediator of the usages of the time.