“Minhas crianças na escola”: sobre mulheres, mães, trabalhadoras da zona rural de Feira de Santana e o tema da Educação Infantil

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to study the living conditions of rural women in the municipality of Feira de Santana (BA), mothers of children in the Ipuaçu / João Durval Carneiro district. Based on the relationship of rural women and their family, life and work conditions, with the routine of their children in school institutions in the stage of Early Childhood Education, the research sought the interface between themes such as Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Education and Education in an attempt to understand how such educational policies can affect family everyday life. In view of the scenario of Law 12.796 / 13, which determines the compulsory enrollment of children (4-5 years) in Early Childhood Education, as a result of struggles of the social collectives and achievement mainly for the working class that requires the guarantee of vacancies for the study aimed to analyze the meaning of the school for mothers of children's education in light of the obligation of law 12 796/13, in the rural area of Feira de Santana. In order to give concrete substance to the objectives of this study, the methodology followed a critical and qualitative social perspective, within the dialectical logic, as instruments of data collection, the application of questionnaires and interviews with rural mothers who have their children enrolled in an institution of Early Childhood Education, in the district of Ipuáçú / João Duval Carneiro. The study revealed that the obligation established by Law 12,796 / 13, was not relevant for the life of the women surveyed. For them, the school is a possibility of social change, so they put in the education of their children an opportunity for social advancement, which they had no chance of achieving. Thus, these women perceive school as a necessary institution in the life of their children, and regardless of the issue of compulsion and age, the school institution from the infantile education, is fundamental to help in facing the difficulties experienced in the scenario of inequality in which they are. Early childhood education is one of the stages in which this schooling takes place, and there is no educational specificity to be discussed in the mothers' understanding. The study also shows that such social inequality, permeated throughout the research scenario, is strongly aggravated by factors such as class, gender, race, territory and lack of schooling, and the school institution is seen as an important strategy for the construction of a another kind of future life, for your children, a life different from yours.