A produção de cartas das mulheres do Programa Mulheres Mil como objeto de pesquisa em História da Educação (Campus Açailândia – MA, 2012-2013)

Abstract

This research thematizes the production of letters by the students of the Thousand Women Program, offered by the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Maranhão, in the years 2012 to 2013, in the Maranhão city of Açailândia. The theme of the research is in the area of History of Education and anchored in the assumptions of Cultural History. The general objective of the study is to analyze the representations about the Program and the life course of the students, from the production of letters in the discipline of Portuguese Language and in the Map of Life Workshop. The research sources were 20 letters written by students, 10 in the Portuguese Language course, offered to the class of the year of 2012 and 10 letters written by students of the class of 2013, in the workshop Map of Life, both activities taught by the author of the search. In addition to the letters, the documents produced by the Federal Government about the operation of the Program were analyzed. The Thousand Women Program started as a project in 2007, the result of a bilateral agreement between Brazil and Canada, in order to qualify a thousand women from the North and Northeast regions of Brazil, due to the social vulnerability of a part of them. In 2011, the project became a Program and consubstantiated in a gender public policy. In this course it arrived in Maranhão and in Açailândia and its implementation occurred in the same year, with the offer of the Basic Course of Professional Qualification in Food. In 2015, the Program ceased to function on its campus, for official reasons, which we do not know. With the research, it was noticed that the students participating in this course, according to the report found in the letters, saw in the Program an opportunity to enter the job market, set up their business and go back to study. However, the proposal of this policy to guarantee access to work and study was not enough to include all the women who participated in the course in the local labor market.