Trajetórias de vida: caminhos percorridos pelos estudantes da educação de jovens e adultos durante a sua vida escolar

Abstract

This work had as general objective to analyze the relation of the student of Education of Young and Adults of the municipality of São João / PE with the school institution in its life trajectories. To reach it, we propose to know, through narratives of life stories, the school journey of the students of the EJA; identify which were the main difficulties encountered by students during their school life; and to establish relations between these difficulties and the meanings attributed by them to the school. We developed our research in a group of 1st and 2nd stage of Education of Young and Adults of a municipal school of São João, Pernambuco. From the Narrative Interview, based on the Oral Life Stories, we collected data with ten students. Our analysis of the narratives gave rise to four categories. The first category, entitled The school comprised in childhood, depicts the memories built on the school institution during the childhood of the student of the EJA. The Reflections on School Life category presents our analysis of the statements that involve the students' memories about the experiences they have had in relation to school. The stimulation to go to school in childhood and adulthood is treated in this third category. The elements that we have here clarify to us how the family has weight in the decisions of the research subjects. In the category The school for life ... The life beyond school, we approach a school overvalued by the students of the EJA. If on the one hand they acknowledge that life can teach, on the other they report that it is the school that can make them, in short, have an easier life, if only, by learning to read and write.