Antagonismos da educação escolar de pessoas em situação de rua

Abstract

This work seeks to understand the problem and context related to homeless people. Specifically reflecting school exclusion which causes the social marginalization and the displacement, given the current social standards. The research also brings a reflection, based on an investigation carried out with some homeless people, who live on the streets near the "Engenheiro Cássio Veiga de Sá", a bus Terminal Station in Cuiabá/MT/Brazil. Another fundamental issue was to validate the difficulties faced by that specific group of people, to complete their baseline school education, due to the existing and legal possibilities regarding public policies. The literary foundation was concentrated, mainly, concerning possibilities and difficulties, which were the main approaches and assumptions. The work articulates phenomenology dialoguing, mainly, with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paulo Freire, since the vulnerable are often on the edge of failing to achieve the benchmarker for an imposed social standard and also for not being able to have access to materials assets and all the possibilities inherent in capitalism. In this aspect, they become invisible to society since they have been removed from family, society, and institutions which denies inserting them as individuals of Public Policies. A parallel was formed, based on an analysis of the interviewees' statements and the proposals contained in the 2008 National Policy for Social Inclusion of the Homeless Population. The case report refers to the offer of the Youth and Adult Education teaching modality - EJA, which is aimed for young people and adults who were unable to continue their studies and for those who did not have access to Elementary and/or High School Education at the appropriate age. Dialogic and direct interviews with the research participants were used as methodological principles. The methodological procedures adopted were: participative observation in the way of life of the research elements, notes in the field, and interviews. The analysis of the data was elaborated, based on the daily dialogues with the research participants, which allowed the construction of a framework to form a parallel between difficulties and possibilities on the search for the education of homeless people on the street. In the approach with the research participants, the report was unanimous in striking and demonstrates that many obstacles prevent them from finding motivation for the study. There is a clear certainty that they also provide the imminent distance between them and education. They state that they are not accepted at school because they have no mobility conditions, nor to acquire didactic material neither school uniform. They claim that they do not have any documentation that allows them to enter school and that chemical dependency is also a factor that contributes a lot so that they have no desire to attend school. They are unanimous in saying that public policies aimed at people living on the streets are not implemented as they should and that they never reach them. According to them, the people who work with the capital's public social assistance service are not prepared to deal with the people who live on the streets, especially in the area of school education as a legal prerogative. Although there are specific initiatives, there is a lack of preparation and inability to perform favorably in the face of the needs of the street population. Unfortunately, homeless people end up being considered excluded from the social standard and this causes, in all of them, a lack of interest in seeking help or an alternative for the life change that everyone is in complete need.