Full-time education, public educational policy and inequality

an outline of a sociological problem

Abstract

This paper analyzes the Programa de Educação Integral, implemented in the secondary level of the state education system of the State of Paraíba, from the point of view of the dynamics of production and reproduction of inequalities. The goal will be to investigate, first, how the barriers socially imposed by social inequalities reflect on the access and permanence of high school students in the schools of the program. Using a qualitative and quantitative methodological approach and a bibliographical study based on classical and contemporary authors of Sociology of Education, some socioeconomic variables were surveyed, and interviews were carried out, allowing the analysis of some factors that contribute to investigate possible inequalities generated within the policy itself. In this sense, the preliminary results presented indicate that this program not only reproduces the social inequalities imposed as barriers that hinder the access and permanence of young people, but also recreates or expands these inequalities.