Na terra da luz: o sol nasce para todos, mas a sombra é para poucos. Projetos de vida e campo de possibilidades de jovens das classes populares – Fortaleza – CE

Abstract

This work is a result of a research about the life’s ways and the future perspectives of the students of the third year of high school at the Paróquia da Paz School, public state institution, located in Aldeota neighborhood, in Fortaleza-Ceará. I research the student’s intentions, aspirations, and further, their difficulties and possibilities, considering their personal path and scholar experiences. I try to know how the strategies for achieving their life purposes in their daily lives are elaborated, from the socialization that they experienced in their concrete realities. To think about the field of possibilities of these youths, I discuss from the ideas of different authors, several support categories, such as social and scholar differences, cultural privileges accumulation, marginalization and concealment of knowledge and social practices, curriculum, intelligence, individual gift and personal merit. The considerations outlined here are made thought reflections, theoretical and empirical studies, which show the challenge of breaking with the circumscribe opportunities reserved to the youths and adults of popular classes. The chances of consummation of student’s project or purposes of life, professional or educational to the poorest people are scarce and pointed. Considering that the own social and educational system filter and classify in a unequal way, the research propound the denaturalization of the definitions of success and failure in life, express by the hierarchies of knowledge and practice that are regimented socially as individual choice or competence.