A relação juventude e educação em diferentes gerações: a perspectiva de estudantes da educação de jovens e adultos de uma escola municipal de Feira de Santana - BA

Abstract

From the analysis of the state of the art on the topic youth in post-graduate courses, scholars in the field have pointed to the need for efforts to be made in order to explore the understanding of the youth category from a relational point of view, emphasizing The relations between generations and investigating their differences and complementarities in order to better understand the condition of youth. This paper meets this demand, guiding yourself from the following research problem: How do young people relate to education, considering the perspective of different generations? To investigate this problem, the research aims at analyzing the relationship between youth and education in the perspective of students of different generations. For this, were chosen as subjects of research students and young adults, students of a municipal school located in a suburb of the city of Feira de Santana, Bahia. The modality Youth and Adults was chosen because it constitutes a privileged meeting point for people who have experienced / experiencing youth in different generations and backgrounds. Having focused on the perception of the subjects, the research is of essentially qualitative in nature, focusing on the following stages: the exploratory stage, fieldwork, analysis and treatment of the empirical material and documentary. Theoretical foundation for conceptual and analytical categories of this research was taken as input authors considered classics by researchers Sociology of Youth as Bourdieu (1983, 1998), Eisenstadt (1976), Mannheim (1982) and Pais (1990), as well as researchers that have been highlighted in the national debate on the subject, given his contributions to the development of research on youth in Brazil, like Abramo (1997, 2005), Camacho (2004), Carrano (2000, 2003), Dayrell (2003 ) Groppo (2000, 2009), Peregrino (2011), Sposito (1994, 1997, 2000, 2005, 2009), Weisheimer (2009) and Weller (2007, 2010). As for the results, it was concluded that, although the young contemporaries have school entry to early childhood realized that, as in the case of previous generations, the age / grade lag remains a salient factor in the educational trajectories of young people of the lower classes, it was found that, as in the case of previous generations reasons related to the delay or interruption of the school trajectory of youth were associated with family difficulties related to the economic situation and the consequent need for early work, similarly, the young the contemporary generation have as a major impediment to stay in school for his forced reconciliation between studies and work, and it was found that the issues related to family formation still crosses generations, posing as deterrent for young women to attend school regularly although this would constitute as a secondary factor. It was concluded that families still remain poorly educated and less economically favored, indicating that social inequalities remain a relevant factor in relation to the education of young people.