Escola, consumo e projetos de vida na visão de jovens estudantes de uma escola pública e outra privada no interior do estado de São Paulo
Abstract
The guidelines that establish the Basic Education in Brazil are the same to public and
private schools, however, the education developed with students from both groups can
have different directions. The relation between the different socioeconomic contexts,
normally existent, can cause different perceptions regarding the opportunities that these
students will have during the construction of their life projects and their future
perspectives. In this context, this research sought to discuss the relationship between the
consumption and the life project under the view of young students from a public school
and a private one, trying to understand how these elements make us rethink the
education in a critical way. To reach the proposed goal, it was chosen two schools in
São Paulo’s countryside, where the researcher works as Geography and History teacher.
High school students, mainly seniors, participated in this research. The methodology
used was initially based on a quiz given in these schools and, later on, semistructured
interviews were developed. This way, general data was collected in order to find out the
socioeconomic profile of the groups, apart from trying to identify the relation with the
consumption, the school and the life projects of these students. It was possible to
conclude that the life projects of these students tend to be individualists and oriented
many times by the power of consumption as, between the interviewed, there was no
student that showed concerns on social or environmental context. It was presented as
proposals to improve these issues, the increase of educational public policies, besides
the projects that can be developed in the schools, in order to favor the development of a
emancipatory education about current society. In this context, themes and directions
about how to make these discussions were suggested, in order to evolve the role of the
different classes in the maintenance of social structures, rethinking the origin of
inequality, racial, historical, school and family issues. If the life project is uncritical,
these individuals may not be clear of what really happens in the society, in respect of
having or not. Their projects can summarize in acquisition of a determined social status
to make their consumption dream.