Programa Bolsa Família e educação em Montes Claros: Olhar de mãe e visão docente

Abstract

Discussions on poverty and inequality have been intensified considerably in Brazil after the adoption of income transfer programs. However, the effects and relationships of these programs on the education of beneficiaries still deserve new immersions and the initial empirical evidence can jeopardize considerably the ways of the Brazilian social protection system. This thesis seeks to analyze the Bolsa Família Program in its social reception and coverage with regard to their structural, impact of redistributive financial nature and primarily in its impact on school performance. Several authors have subsidized the analysis here undertaken, among others, IVO (2011), SEN (2000, 2000a), SCHONS (2007), Rawls (2000, 2000a, 2002) SILVA, Yasbek and GIONANNI (2004), REGO E PINZANI (2013) KLIKSBERG (2001), with which it sought dialogue. The issue in question reveals our current perception of the necessary evaluation of a program that has a little more than a decade of implementation. We believe that this study relates and contributes to the literature in two directions. The first concerns the progress and impact evaluations of conditional transfer programs of global income to a specific region of the mining interior. We have seen that the PBF has impact on school attendance, however, about proficiency or school performance is an open question. The second direction concerns the search subjectivities and ideologies that can affect the proficiency of children and quality of education. We seek explanations by interpreting systemic data on the socio-economic and educational reality of the North Minas Gerais in the last decade, and the analysis of the perceptions of the leading actors in this process: mothers and active teachers in the early years of basic education from public Montes Claros- MG. This allowed us to understand different views of the analyzed program. Our results indicate that the conditionalities of the program, though not directly, can be instruments to provide lower-income citizens seeking redress. Moreover, without the pretension finalist favor us a multifocal reading on the significance and spatiality of the Bolsa Família Program, which allows us to offer to the society of the images of a reality marked by stigma and contradictions.