De volta à escola: entre os limites de ser e as possibilidade de viver

Abstract

In this study, images of life histories and schooling for women, residents in the neighborhood of Forest Dark, punctuated by actual situations of denial and / or limitation of rights and at the same time, set up by promises of re-signification and projection, guidedIn order to investigate if a rupture with the limits established in the social and family to return to school means to these women empodramento perspective. There are the results of treatment of the contents of reports of a group of women working class, public school students, who after walking difficult struggle for survival begin or return to school, and her experience new situations and experiences, imposing himself in need of schooling as instrumental importance for your personal and professional development; whose systematization of ideas aimed at understanding the conditions that enabled them to access and led to the abandonment and subsequent return to school, what happened between departure and return to school: the heterogeneous conditions of life, culture, values, expectations, reflect on the meanings they attach to the study and scholarly knowledge, to identify the expectations of school education and the changes that brought in their lives, translating images explain the search for education in the perspective of empowerment. It therefore brings together a set of ideas whose analysis in dialogue with scholars of education has highlighted that the school is a place for these women of "hope" and "freedom", and the knowledge acquired through schooling a possible way to exercise them with conscience . The significance of returning to school is interwoven with the concept of social emancipation and individual, autonomy and the school education is a possibility of providing is a new instrument, the ability to know and to act, or even (re ) mean / transform reality, therefore, vital force to guarantee their empowerment.