O protagonismo da mulher catadora : contribuições da educação não formal para o seu fortalecimento e resistência

Abstract

The present production presented to the Graduate Program in Social Work of the School of Humanities - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, to obtain the title of Master in Social Work, deals with the contributions of non-formal education and Social Work for the development of emancipatory social processes in the lives of women collectors of the National Movement of Collectors of Recyclable Materials, from the Central, Western Frontier and Metropolitan Region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. , the emancipatory social processes triggered by non-formal education in the search for the guarantee of rights, as well as the contributions of Social Work to these processes, with a view to giving them visibility and potentializing them. The study was based on the referential of dialectical and historical materialism, and the research process was carried out from the case study, considering the analysis of the experiences carried out in a civil society organization, to which the researcher is linked. Documentary analyzes and iconic records of the work with female pickers were carried out, as well as analysis of interviews documented in institutional records with women pickers. Data treatment used simple statistical treatment and content analysis technique. As a result, we verified that the work from group processes, using mediations that originated from the concrete experience of these women, analyzed collectively, based on non-formal education and the perspective of contributing to emancipatory social processes, strengthened them, contributed to the expansion of their awareness and identification of social and gender inequalities in particular to which they are subject, enhancing their collective organization, processes of consolidating their identity as workers and improving their self-esteem, strengthening the movement and initiatives to collectively confront inequalities