De matéria ou de convivência? Narrativas de jovens de favela sobre a escola

Abstract

The widespread of education in Brazil after the 1990s allowed the working class to have an easier access to formal learning. However, there are some issues for those working-class students to face throughout their high school years. This dissertation discusses the role of schools in the contemporary world based on 13 interviews with young favela-dwellers from Rio de Janeiro city. The methodology used for this research includes the concept of différance developed by Jacques Derrida to address the meanings and identifications as relationally, differentially and unstably constructed. The notion of iterability was also used to problematize the research terms young, poor favela-dwellers at school based on academic papers, an important vector in the meanings construction by social context. Based on Leonor Arfuch's and Rosa Hessel da Silveira's studies, the narratives told by those young students are also analyzed according to the ever-changing meanings brought up by this kind of interaction, which also concerns the topics presented in this study. As the interviewees describe the prejudice there is in both their school and social lives for being labeled as favela-dwellers, they also consider the school as an important means of social ascension, social interaction with peers and coexistence in society