Estrangeiras no território de vida?: um estudo sobre a produção social da velhice

Abstract

This work is an integral part of the Doctoral Course in Brazilian Education of the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Ceará, along with the Social Movements, Popular Education and School - MovSoc line. Part of the problem of old age as a foreigner to think of pre-expressiveness and dialogue as a means of learning appropriate to this universe of people, which is in rapid demographic growth in Brazil. It uses as theoretical reference to think old age the inter-sectionality between old age and gender. The research took the tools of participant observation, interviews and field diary - together with a group of elderly people linked to a public service that seeks support based on coexistence and strengthening of links. Its final objective is to offer a new strategy of socio-educational activity for the Service of Coexistence and Strengthening of Links, within the scope of the Basic Social Protection of the Unique System of Social Assistance. The research evidenced: the rearguard role of the elderly women to the families, taking care of its members and / or sustaining them, 63% of the old people of Ceará are heads of family. Work is socially invisible. Paradoxically they are mistreated. There is a culture of devaluation of the old as old age enters the time of formal post-work. This culture passes between generations. The challenges of the process of population aging concern the society as a whole, since the family and intergenerational relational pattern changes. The elderly group was relevant when making breaks in the social gaze of old age. Continuing education is necessary as selfunderstanding of self in this context. Technical-scientific knowledge understands death as strictly biological, suppressing the spiritual, source of knowledge and support brought by the elderly.