A diáspora nordestina e a escola: entre a dispersão e o encontro

Abstract

This paper, whose subject is the analysis of the education of youngsters and adults (EJA/YAE) presents, as its main and only objective, the generation of interest for a formal education, by the students at the EJA/YAE, and also underlines how these interests re-define the concept of citizenship associated with the act of schooling. To understand this objective, we proceeded to do an investigation of ethnographical nature, based on a systematic observation of two different night schools of elementary education that belong to the public school system of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Apart from the systematic observation, registered in a working field diary, a few interviews were conducted with students of both sexes (N=28) and teachers (N=9). There was also a data collecting, both on demographic origin and education level, of the subjects of this research, as well as on documents and didactic material that were circulating within this pedagogical acting spaces. On the data analysis we have tried to combine/conjugate these data with the social-historical context of the generation of the students identities, and this counted also with a few statistical supports. Therefore, we have tried to establish a dialogue that would surpass the speeches that constitute the model of a school, already conditioned and reflected on the intentionality of the laws, memorandum books and programmatic contents, introduced by the institutions responsible for the EJA/YAE. On the analysis and interpretation of the collected data, it is possible to come to the reality of the migration specifically the Northern one , in the context of the Brazilian territorial space; the strategies for survival created by these immigrants; the solidarity network which involves the solutions in terms of searching for jobs in the metropolis and on the affection relations; the value conferred by these students when in school and when staying in that educating acting spaces; and the construction of a social sense and a belonging citizenship, that reading and writing may confer to these students, boys or girls, on their search for a formal and/or professionalizing education.