Banca de DEFESA: ARIANE ROCHA FELICIO DE OLIVEIRA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : ARIANE ROCHA FELICIO DE OLIVEIRA
DATA : 25/09/2020
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: Ambiente Virtual
TÍTULO:

Meritocracy and future projection from the perspective of young students: the ideology of merit in the construction of “normal life”

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Meritocracy. Youth. Schooling. Public school. Future Projection.

PÁGINAS: 288
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Educação
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos da Educação
ESPECIALIDADE: Psicologia Educacional
RESUMO:

This research’s object is the relation between meritocracy and the undergoing schooling adolescents and young people future projection. As a qualitative research, it aimed to understand, from the 9th year grade Middle School students in a public school in Salvador city perspectives and experiences, how meritocratic speeches and their medicalizing bias impact on the future projection. Specifically, it sought to understand how meritocratic speeches are assimilated and experienced by young 9th year grade students inside and outside school; to know how these students see their own schooling process, school trajectory and possible failures; identify what is the merit’s role in these adolescents and young students’ school experience; understand what is the school experience’s role in the future projection of teenagers and young students in the 9th year grade in a public school. In order to achieve these objectives, the research carried out fieldwork, which adopted as main procedures questionnaire survey application, formation of reflective groups and conducting individual interviews. Starting from meritocracy concept naturalization critique, the thesis highlights the objective aspects, those have political, historical and social nature, which support such ideology that composes the neoliberal capitalist logic. It also criticizes the hegemonic way of conceiving youth, emphasizing the social and historical conditions in the composition of this concept. In addition, it signalizes for the social exclusion indicators implication in the look targeted to the different youths, especially from discriminatory speeches in social space inside and outside school. In order to understand the reproduction of speeches that guide life and schooling just in personal effort, the research highlights the relevant role of the meritocratic (neo)liberal ideology as a way of life producer, warning about the rooting of systematic conditions in a naturalized and fatalistic way by public school youth. Although based on meritocracy, the class cut produces in these young people, the majority poor and non-white, future projections based on low expectations of economic growth. They project a "normal life", consisted in access housing and feeding fundamental rights, these being promoted by work focus. Based on a critical and intersectional analysis perspective, this thesis points the race and class privileges aspects in a possibility of impeaching the system, highlighting that the belief in meritocratic speeches may be related to a way of keep living, even in the face of social inequalities, which promote the poor and non-white people extermination, literally and metaphorically. It is hoped, with the research, to contribute to the readers' reflection about the meritocratic ideology naturalization, in order to question it and problematize it, taking it out from the only possible way of life place.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1878649 - LYGIA DE SOUSA VIEGAS
Externo ao Programa - 2766416 - MARIA IZABEL SOUZA RIBEIRO
Externo à Instituição - ANA KARINA AMORIM CHECCHIA
Externo à Instituição - DENISE SILVA DE SOUZA - SME
Externo à Instituição - FERNANDA FOCHI NOGUEIRA INSFRAN