O impacto educacional do programa bolsa fam??lia na cidadania de jovens de ensino m??dio do Distrito Federal

• Autor(a) principal: Lucena, Jos?? Ivaldo Ara??jo de
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UCB
• Texto Completo: https://bdtd.ucb.br:8443/jspui/handle/tede/1975
• topic: Educa????o; Programa Bolsa Fam??lia; Jovens; Ensino M??dio; Distrito Federal; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::EDUCACAO FISICA

The present study aims to investigate the educational impact of the Bolsa Fam??lia Program (PBF) on the citizenship of high school youth in the Distrito Federal (DF) public school system. Given the subject matter and objectives of this study, we opted for a qualitative research approach, employing a case study strategy that was applied in a public high school in the Planaltina Administrative Region. This city was chosen for having the largest number of young PBF beneficiaries in the DF. As research techniques, document analysis, questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups were used. The data was interpreted by using Ball, Bowe and Gold's (1992) political cycle analysis approach, and also the discourse analysis proposed by Orlandi (1999). The results indicate that the initial educational impact of PBF is centred on its conditionality of compulsory class attendance by the young beneficiaries. However, being in school does not necessarily guarantee a level of learning that contributes to the emancipatory citizenship of young students and their consequent preparation for the demands of higher education and the labour market. Through interviews with school principals, pedagogical coordinators, and some teachers, we discovered that there is limited knowledge in regards to how the PBF is present in their school. With exception of the school secretariat that keeps track and uploads the attendance data of students in the Attendance System of the Ministry of Education (MEC), the principals and other educators are unaware who the students enrolled in PBF are and what their expectations and concerns are in educational terms. This lack of knowledge has made this group of students invisible at school, preventing the school from offering a more equitable and qualified teaching service. One concern is that the only requirement of PBF in relation to school is limited to attendance control. However, there were identified some isolated experiences of teachers who perform preparatory classes for the National High School Exam (Enem), an activity that is geared towards all school students and not just for PBF beneficiaries. Educators and students who participated in the study argued that the educational conditionality of the program should also include the academic performance of students in order to continue receiving the PBF benefit. However, this suggestion demands enhanced coordination between the social and educational policy, as well as a more consistent support on the part the school. The educational achievement is directly related to how the teaching and learning processes are developed in the classroom. It is vital to have a more consolidated partnership between school administration, teachers, parents, and students, as only through the involvement of all these stakeholders, that the PBF can contribute more effectively to the promotion of the citizenship of young public high school beneficiaries. The PBF increasingly presents itself as a relevant policy in the social and assistential fields, however, if its criteria and linking to education are not revised, it may severely compromise the educational performance and emancipated citizenship of the disadvantaged youth in Brazilian public high schools.