SCHOOL EXPERIENCE IN EVENING UPPER SECONDARY EDUCATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Pontes, Hamanda; Weller, Wivian

doi:10.1590/1980531410374_en

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SCHOOL EXPERIENCE IN EVENING UPPER SECONDARY EDUCATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

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Abstract

The article examines the school experience of young female students enrolled in the regular curriculum at evening upper secondary education. We conducted eight group discussions with female students from two public schools in the Federal District (Brazil), which were analyzed with the documentary method. The results of the comparative analysis reveal that the construction of school experience during evening upper secondary education, along with its underlying set of practices, is structured by a frame of orientation that is empirically constituted in the conflict relationship between an institutionalized standard of school career development and the habitus of the female students. The problem of habitual misfit connects different evening school students to the same conjunctive space of experience.

EXPERIENCE; UPPER SECONDARY EDUCATION; EVENING REGULAR EDUCATION; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

GD PRESSURE
Participant	Age	Race/Color	Parents’ education and occupation		Siblings	Prior school experiences
Participant	Age	Race/Color	Father	Mother
Babi (Bf)	18 years old	Black	PE (early grades) Mechanic	PE (early years) Domestic worker	Two sisters	School absence (1^st grade of SE) Grade failure (2^nd year of SE)
Carla (Cf)	19 years old	White	SE Public employee	HE Ad woman	Two brothers and two sisters	Grade failure (5^th grade)
GD PRESSURE
Participant	Age	Race/Color	Parents’ education and occupation		Siblings	Prior school experiences
Participant	Age	Race/Color	Father	Mother
Daniela (Df)	18 years old	White	PE Security guard	HE Beautician	Two brothers and two sisters	School absence (1^st grade of SE) Grade failure (3^rd grade of SE)
Fernanda (Ff)	18 years old	White	PE Entrepreneur	PE Housewife	Three brothers and two sisters	Grade failure (9^th grade)
Michele (Mf)	18 years old	White	SE Self-employed	PE General service worker	A brother	Grade failure (9^th grade)
GD PARTY
Bebela (Bf)	18 years old	Black	PE (early grades) Self-employed	PE Gas station attendant	Two brothers	Grade failure (2^nd grade of SE)
Cecília (Cf)	18 years old	White	Deceased	PE Housewife	Three brothers	Grade failure (2^nd grade of SE)
Flávia (Ff)	18 years old	Black	Didn’t know her father	PE (early years) House maid	Three brothers and a sister	Grade failure (1^st grade of SE)
Jennifer (Jf)	18 years old	Black	PE Cook	PE Sealer	Three brothers	Grade failure (2^nd grade of SE)
Rayla (Rf)	18 years old	White	SE Public employee	PE Unemployed	Two sisters	Grade failure (1^st grade of SE)
Luana (Lf)	19 years old	Black	Did not know her father	PE House maid	Two sisters	School absence (1^st grade of SE) Grade failure (3^rd grade of SE)

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[1] Translated by: Fernando Effori de Mello^III

1	Y:	And girls, like (.) I’d like you to talk a little (.)
2		eh: how did you enter upper secondary education (2) what has
3		your school journey been like so far in third grade
4	Bf:	Upper secondary education for me has been a desperate time (2) when I
5		entered it (.) because like (2) is a time when everyone has
6		an expectation for you that you’ll be someone after you finish it
7		(2) to the point that I failed second grade (2) out of pressure (.)
8		I I left it all like I just couldn’t be bothered out of
9		pressure like from family from friends who studied hard and I
10		like I didn’t want to study (1) so my second grade (2) was
11		even in morning time (1) 2MJ (.) I stopped studying in the third
12		bimester. (.) I said I wouldn’t go anymore period (1) and
13		I even put it down in the form (1) and then: (1) then I was like
14		reflecting whether I really didn’t want it and all (1) then: I’d look at
15		beggars in the street I’d see several realities (.) then I (.) chose
16		to finish the year without=without finishing second grade (1) then my
17		mom asked me if I wanted to do EJA °to speed up the process
18		or if I wanted to stick to normal (2) as I was (2) I turned
19		eighteen that year (1) I think I was: (1) still hadn’t turned
20		seventeen (.) that’s right (1) then I chose (.) no I’m gonna (.) since I’m still
21		the right age still more or less (.) where I can: finish it I’m going to
22		finish normal. I don’t wanna do EJA, because I think EJA
23		is too pushed off you know like a slap, get out already
24	TD:	@(.)@
25	Bf:	@And I didn’t want that for me@ you know (1) then like: but
26		upper secondary for me has been nothing like I
27		thought (.) it would be (1) when: I was in secondary school (1) I
28		thought upper secondary was much more serious and all (.) it’s
29		just the opposite, to what people will have you think
30		but upper secondary still has this pressure (2) coming from people
31		from outside, to keep pressing you (1) every day someone
32		different will ask me what I want to be, what I
33		want to study (.) I’m like (.) Gee I haven’t even left school yet cool it
34		(1) then? if you
35	Df:	└ Oh but you’re already -in third grade buddy
36	Bf:	└ No we’re cool? cool
37	Df:	@I’m breathing down your neck@ just kidding
38	Bf:	There=there -see
39	Df:	@(1)@
40	Ff:	@there -see@
41	Bf:	You know what I mean (1) so I think like
42		gee (1) every day, you’re someone else every day you’re
43		someone different (.) today? I may -be thinking this way
44		tomorrow I might’ve already -made up my mind (.) for example
45		three professions have crossed my mind (.) that I wanted to do it
46		you know (1) so I think upper secondary (1) is a pressure
47		cooker

41	Bf:	like I said in the beginning (.) I think it’s a pressure cooker like
42		that: (3) won’t be through until you actually graduate as something
43	Df:	└ When
44		you’ve cooked through
45	Bf:	When:: is that? When you’ve cooked through (2) and people look at you
46		like (1) but, there will always be you know (.) always
47	Mf:	└ No there will always be (1) when you’re
48		accepted into college
49	Bf:	└ There’ll be someone saying it’s not good enough, no.
50	Mf:	You have to get a job (.) then formal contract

51	Ff:	You grow up? knowing that in upper secondary there’ll be
52		some: pressure
53	CF:	└ It’s
54	Ff:	much bigger for everything (.) I think like it all fits in
55		pressure, because: you’re pressured about finding your first
56		real, official boyfriend eh: of really taking a stand for
57		yourself in your bunch, (.) of actually knowing whether you
58		are straight
59	Bf:	└ Having your own opinion
60	Ff:	If you are lesbian if you: trans?
61	Df:	└ Or you found that out back in elementary school and
62		now you’ll have to come out
63	Ff:	You find that out and there’s already pressure on you come
64		out to your friends, what it will be like (.) eh: lots of things
65	Mf:	And also having your opinion, about things, and all
66	Df:	└ Yeah, end up
67		forming your opinion in a way (1) and striving to be
68		someone? in life (.) to be recognized

1	Y:	And so girls (.) eh: could you talk a little about what it’s
2		like to be an upper secondary student for you
3	Bf:	A pain (.) requirements
4	Jf:	└ Boy it’s hard
5	Bf:	Too many demands (.) I myself (.) my mom (.) I failed
6		upper secondary second grade here at school you know (1) was it? it
7		was like my failure it was kind of personal? and also; (1) like it; or not; it
8		was a bit of a slip, o’ mine, because I oh dear I think
9		no one would ever imagine (1) that I (2) would fail
10	Ff:	└ Gee? it’s true (.) you’d get
11		good grades every time
12	CF:	I also thought Bebela was -already in college
13	Bf:	└ No (.) yes
14	CF:	when she got here, we were like what -are you doing here girl
15	Bf:	└ Yeah (.) and
16		like (.) no one, no one would have thought (.) it was like, a year that
17		my mom was like Bebela (1) I cried all the tears
18		I could (.) that I wouldn’t do it wasn’t going back, you know (.) and
19		Like (1) my friend Bebela watch out not to get into
20		Depression
21	Ff:	└ @(.)@
22	Bf:	Because like it or not it’s a pain
23	Jf:	└ I was like that
24	Bf:	because you see your friends getting ahead and all and you’re
25		there? like it or not you get kind of eh: you think you’re kind of
26		different you know (2) so like it began in my classroom eh: I
27		-was still in second grade and my friends- were in third grade and then
28		(They’d do some) heavy teasing (3) saying things and
29		all and I’d be like ah-ha (had to go through that embarrassment) and like
30		my mom to this day she still rubs it in (.) she’s ((coughing)) kind of
31		rubbing it in my face (1) because, I got a poor grade and (2)
32		because=in=fact I flanked in Portuguese you know (.) I got four
33		points four points (.) she’s like gee Bebela four points in
34		Portuguese (1) you’re a failure (1) she’s like kind of rubbing it in
35		my face (.) you’re a failure, (1) then I turned to her ((pounding the
36		table)) if I had eh: if I hadn’t failed (.) what did I say (2)
37		oh I replied something to her but -I could see that anytime she might
38		slap me in the mouth
39	Ff:	@(.)@

59	Bf:	But that’s right (.) there are expectations at home to this day
60		because I’m the eldest in everything you know (.) this and
61		that my mom (.) oh: she keeps saying this and that (.) but
62		let her talk I don’t even care (.) I’ll just turn my back
63	Ff:	└ @(.)@
64	Bf:	She keeps saying this and that you gotta study you gotta
65		study you gotta study, you gotta study? you gotta
66		study? you gotta study gotta study? that’s all that’s all
67	Lf:	└ In my home
68		you had this thing my mom look you get a good grade
69	Bf:	└ That’s
70		all (.) but it’s not like my grandmother used say you gotta
71		study dear (.) you gotta do this be that (.) you see the
72		daughter of so and so she’s a well-behaved student (.) -she’s
73		doing this and that and this and that °I say no,
74		granny -sure° (1) like it or not it’s too much expectation in
75		upper secondary (2) even more in the last grade? you have
76		to secure your diploma
77	Lf:	└ And there’s this thing
78		look while you’re -sleeping someone -is studying (.)
79		I wanna sleep for God’s sake I don’t wanna
80		study ’til I drop