Avó, mãe e filham falam sobre a escola: mudanças da educação no decorrer das três gerações

Abstract

This research is the result of a study whose objective was to make comparisons of the changes that occurred in Brazilian education between one generation and another, to perceive the difficulties encountered in each period and to recognize the obstacles encountered by each generation. With the intention of giving voice to those who lived the education in a period of approximately seven decades, externalize the feelings caused in the people and thus value their memories, referring to the formal or informal studies in each epoch. Qualitative, had as methodological procedures: investigative research and semi-structured interviews with three women of different generations. These three women, who constitute three generations of the same family, have in common in their individual biographies, the fact that they had completed all their school education in the same city in the interior of Ceará. For such it was based on writers such as Souza (1964) and Teodoro (1964), among others. First, it was presented where is located the city that occurred the facts reported by the interviewees and a deepening on the history of the state of Ceará. Subsequently, the life and school biographies of the subjects of this research were reported, from what was taken from the speeches of the above-mentioned interviewees. In the end we can see how important it is to give voice and attention to the experiences lived by the subjects of each time, to analyze what has changed and even what has improved or not in the country's education, in order to always seek further improvements and record the good or bad developments that can occur over time.