No sertão da minha terra, o sentido da escolarização, as expectativas profissionais e o discurso sobre identidade e individualizações de jovens rurais estudantes do ensino médio em escolas urbanas

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Menezes, Isabela Gonçalves de
• Orientador(a): Neves, Paulo Sérgio da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Educação
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Educação; Ensino médio; Juventude rural; Interação rural-urbana; Estudantes; Identidade social; Escolarização; Expectativas profissionais; Identidades; Individualizações; Jovens rurais
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Schooling; Professional expectations; Identities; Individualizations; Young people in rural areas
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/4596

This is a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative study aimed to investigate how young people living in rural areas perceive the schooling experience, what are their professional expectations and how they verbalize their identities and individualizations. The study universe was composed of young individuals from rural areas in the last year of high school in urban schools of Poço Redondo and Nossa Senhora da Glória, cities of the sertão region of the state of Sergipe. Data collection began in 2015, in three schools, with the administration of a questionnaire, interviews and focal groups to a total sample of 80 young individuals from rural areas. Data analysis showed that parents encouraged their children to go to school and wanted them to pursue higher education studies, but even when they were not supported by their parents, these youngsters expressed their wish to go to college. For them, school is a gateway to a profession that will ensure a higher social status and higher income, and this cannot be obtained in agricultural activities. Regarding school and professional expectations, in Poço Redondo, although most youngsters confirmed their interest in attending university, they were more willing to get a job than the youngsters were from Nossa Senhora da Glória. Regarding their parents’ expectations, some youth said they did not agree with the careers their parents wanted them to follow, and others said they would choose their own professions, particularly girls of Nossa Senhora da Glória. Some of them were not sure of what they wanted to do because of the predominant scenario of poverty of rural families. Most of them loved the countryside, but could not decide whether to stay or move to urban areas. Those who wished to leave the countryside claimed they were looking for better living conditions and for a job in the city. However, leaving does not mean rejecting the rural environment and staying does not imply becoming a farmer, since none of the participants spontaneously indicated an interest in this profession. Asked whether they would like to be farmers, most of the girls answered “no”, in a slightly lower percentage than those who attended the school of Nossa Senhora da Glória. The boys who attended the school of Poço Redondo had diverging opinions, while most students at the school of Nossa Senhora da Glória did not want to be farmers. The rural environment of the sertão region of Sergipe has changed a lot. Most young people are strongly identified with rural production, but attending urban high schools has changed their minds. Many of them perceived the sertanejos as individuals who live on farming and are always facing extreme climactic conditions such as droughts. Regarding their expectations of the future, based on their parents’ lives, none of the subjects suggested their lives would be worse than their parents’ lives and most expect to have better life conditions than their parents. Asked whether they knew exactly what they wanted, the subjects were careful and many said plans are useless, although most suggested they wished to become entrepreneurs. Thus, the subjects apparently tended to passive individualization, using tactics to construct their careers.