Trajetórias de vida e formação de mulheres estudantes da educação profissional e técnica: um estudo feminista na educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

This thesis brings results of the research performed with enrolled female students in Technical Course in Civil Construction, in the PROEJA modality, of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul. This research aims to identify and discuss the impacts resulting from the gender relationships over their life trajectories and training of these women, just like over their schooling process. This study, of qualitative character, was inspired by the Stories of life and formation, according to Josso (2002). It is necessary to highlight, however, that it doesn’t characterize itself as a research-training, strictly speaking. To data collection, face-toface, individual and group meetings were held, which resulted in the main corpus of research analisis. We also analyzed documents, searched bibliographic, such as the collection of quantifiable data, checked with the purpose of illustrating, partly, how the issue of gender division of labour takes place in the professional education space. As an analysis of data technique, we chose Content Analysis, according to Bardin (2011). The theoretical framework is located in the field of feminist theories, of black feminism and of intersectionality. The systematized results allowed us to observe that, despite the occurring changes in the learning field, the sexual division of labour continues to operate in learning spaces, specially in the locus of research, no longer about to women’s access, since they represent most of active enrollments, however, in the choosing of graduation and technical courses, what reveals the accentuated differences between the areas designed to man the women. Also, we could verify that sexual division of labour continues to take place in the private sphere, once women perform, mostly, the function of caring for both the home and family members. We confirmed, also, that despite all the legal accomplishments, women keep on suffering from a variety of impacts over their training and life trajectory, as a result of gender biases imposed by the way society is structured. These impacts bring with them many losses that are linked to other social markers, such as race and social conditions, for example, doom women to situations of vulnerability, exposing them to many types of violence, just as we will discuss along this paper.