EDUCATION AND EXCLUDED IN THE SCHOOL ADOLESCENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF CAPITALISM
Adolescence; school exclusion; compensatory education; Accelerated Learning;
This research is based on the need to contribute to discussions about the adolescents school exclusion phenomenon through Accelerated Learning Program - Poronga. That is the materialization of the Roberto Marinho Foundation's Telecurso 2000 Program, implemented in the state of Acre, Brazil, since 2002 to 2019. The Project is considered as an expression of compensatory education for adolescents, in the context of educational reforms under the characteristics of Third Way neoliberalism and the commodification of the education. According to Historical-Cultural Psychology authors, it is understood that formal education is essential to the human formation process, as it is expected that an educational program aimed at facing school failure provides teaching and learning conditions that promote the development of adolescents, and if they don’t, it contributes to promote a double exclusion disguised as inclusion. The main objective was to reveal and analyze the social meanings that support the personal meanings about Poronga, from the point of view of the education of adolescents. The specific objectives were: 1) to investigate, according with the conditions of the students' lives, possible aspects defined as school exclusion; 2) to capture the personal meanings attributed to the educational process in Poronga, analyzing the needs and motives of school people related to participation in the project and to their real lives; 3) to analyze the students schooling process in Poronga on the transition to high school, in order to understand where these adolescents were starting and in what this education is useful to aggregate or atrophy in terms of the adolescence expected development. The research was realized out in the city of Cruz do Sul-AC, with the participation of different actors (two teachers and seven program’s students, six responsible for the students), through two interviews. Data collection revealed that the socioeconomic context of students and their families in Poronga is one of extreme material and cultural poverty, marked by a school that denies the right of learning. Despite this reality, both family members and students signify positively school education, by expressing social meanings that reiterate the importance of school. This contradiction, present in the flow correction project, which is sought to be problematized within the scope of this study.