Narrativas de mulheres das classes populares: modos de subjetivação e educação escolar

Abstract

This thesis has presented as our research object class and gender crossings in modes of subjectivation of popular classes women. Taking as initial field a public school, the Municipal School Bom Pastor - MSBP, which has served and serves popular classes women, I’ve became interested in the narratives in regard to their relationship with school education, presenting the following research question: in what ways those women participants in the research tell their relationships with education and how these relationships are crossed by class and gender? The empirical material was built from resignified narrative interviews, in which that women tell themselves and thereby create mesnings by their experiences of life, intertwined to the schooling processes. To compose the empirical material, I’ve developed studies on school history, initial research lócus, as well as the relationships that women have established/ establish with this space. Incursions have been made into neighborhoods where that women lived and notes were made in a daily field notes about these incursions and my impressions of the interviews. The survey has showed a generational snip, working with former students of the school field that had children in it, as well as the mothers of these former students. From a theoretical and methodological framework that privileges Gender Studies, Cultural Studies and Foucaultian by a post-structuralist orientation, I’ve worked with the class and gender categories, searching by experiences / modes of subjectivation, discursive formations and practices that positioned those women in relation to school education. The narratives have indicated the schooling perception as an imperative in their lives, showing it as a way to "be someone in life.”. And, both the achievement in that field as a "failure", they showd active in their modes of subjectivation. The generational snip has pointed to changes in ways of understanding school education that was seen initially as a privilege of the few and after, was pass to the understanding of education as a right, coming up, today, to be perceived as an imperative for social inclusion. Class contingencies were present, bringing motherhood, survival, constructions of family, masculinity and femininity as questions that affect the relationship with school educatiion. The research also has indicated to the invisibility / silencing of issues of race / color questions regarding the approach and detachment from school education. Finally, I bring the final considerations about the research, pointing to possible new inquiries.