A educação formal e o trabalho infantil: um estudo de caso em uma Escola de Muritiba

Abstract

This monograph deals with the theme "Formal Education and Child Labor: a case study at a Muritiba School", a phenomenon that occurs all over the world. In Brazil, child labor has as one of the main causes, the low family income, the social issue with profound consequences on the lives of children and adolescents. In chapter 1we analyze the formal education in Brazil historical process and related concepts, we also discussed in this chapter the relationship between education and child labor and the concept of child labor used in this study. We also made a survey of the regulatory framework in force in Brazil that deals with the prohibition of child labor and the protection of children and adolescents. Thus, an empirical research was carried out on the subject, aiming to conceptualize Child Labor, its causes and consequences in the lives of children and adolescents, bringing a brief history of this phenomenon, its current condition in Brazil that presents as the main activity of these children / teenagers working in the free fair of Muritiba. Next, the struggle for the eradication of child labor in Brazil, presenting the historical trajectory of the PETI, and its policy of action with the families enrolled in the program. In the search for this information were chosen some items that would guide this research, to make possible the construction of a profile of these groups. It was observed that they are low-income families, where the majority of the people are low-educated, poorly qualified and underpaid, surviving low standards of living, thus requiring their children to raise small or family income, reviving the vicious circle of poverty.