Mulheres que se contam: histórias de vida e narrativas de educandas chefes de família da Educação de Jovens e Adultos

Abstract

This research was developed in the PPG of UFJF which has as research area the Brazilian education in terms of management and pedagogical practices. As from questions and tensions about the limitations and possibilities of the experience of women chiefs of families in Youth and Adult Education, having as central the need to understand, based on their life history narratives, which meanings and importance the school assumes in their lives at different moments in which they go through, and how their experience and social condition as women and chiefs of families affect their schooling process. Therefore, the general objective was to understand how gender issues cross their school paths from the singular context of their life history narratives, aiming to establish the places represented by school in the lives of these women who return to EJA. As a research methodology, we chose life stories, through interviews with three EJA students, which allowed us to verify in which ways the crossing of gender, race, and class are seen as determinants in their schooling trajectory, both in the context of regular education and in their return to EJA. Issues such as ethno-racial belonging, maternity, and the different forms of violence against women go through their narratives, leading us to conclude that the interruptions and interdictions in their school path are directly relate to their condition and social place as women in a society marked by patriarchy and the social and racial division of classes.