Juventude feminina e a divisão sexual do trabalho no curso técnico em informática integrado ao ensino médio do IFFAR – Campus São Borja

Abstract

This Masters Dissertation, presented to the Graduate Program in Education (PPGE) at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), is about the female youth and the technical programs conjoined to high school education, and it has as a research question: what are the stablished relations between the young students in the Computing technical course in IFFAR in São Borja Campus, given the work division based on gender? The main goal is to analyze the relations stablished between the young female students of the Computing Technical Course conjoined to the High School Program at IFFAR in Campus São Borja, concerning the gender division of work, and the specific objectives are: a) to research how the Brazilian legislation and the educational public policies have, in the long run, built the program that unites high school and technical courses; b) to verify the historical construction of occupations traditionally done by men in the labor market and its relation to the young female students; c) to analyze data about the institution mentioned in the research, its foundation, its conception and objectives related to the technical courses conjoined to the high school program; d) to outline the profile of the female young students at the technical course conjoined to the high school program in São Borja in which the research occurs; d) to identify the relations set between the young female students at the course, their male classmates, their female and male teachers and the principal staff, respecting their speech view and their young protagonism. As a theoretical background, this research uses Dayrell (2003), Peralva (1997), Gil (2011), Weller (2012 e 2014), Manfredi (2002), Moura (2010), Frigotto et al (2005), Bourdieu (2003), Perrot (2009), Saffioti (2013 e 2015), Louro (2013 e 2014), Butler (2016), among others. The methodology uses the feminism as an epistemological foundation, and it is developed through empirical research. The research method is qualitative and its approach is done by case studies. The data collection technique used was the opinion survey, comprehending 38 participants from the Computing Technical Course from the Farroupilha Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology during the month of July of 2017. The data was analyzed by the Content Analysis method. The results pointed that the students do not notice the gender division in their classes, even though they sustain discourses and acts that divide and segment the social organization by genders.