Educação e pobreza: Limiares de um campo em (re)definição

Abstract

This article discusses the contemporary Brazilian academic production on the relation between formal education and poverty, using three sources: the Brazilian Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations (BDTD), the Scientific Eletronic Library OnLine (SciELO) and the Google Scholar. Data on authors were also analyzed using Lattes Platform and the Research Group Directory of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). The research objectives were: a) to provide a survey (location and systematization) of the scientific production of social sciences and humanities on the relationship between poverty and formal education; b) to establish a typology (comparison and differentiation) of the forms such relation has in the views of researchers and research subjects, and c) to examine the issues of gender, race and social class (identification and consideration) involved in the relation between poverty and formal education in such scientific production. Results have shown that there is an increasing interest in the relation between formal education and poverty, with higher concentration of publications in the fields of Education, Economics, Health and Social Work. The registration frequency of a given author or group was low, indicating a strong turnover of the people interested in the theme. The most discussed subjects were "school allowance, family allowance or other income transfer programs", and also "social exclusion and social inequality". There were 13 different ways of relating education and poverty, and the most present was "Education as a condition of change in poverty situation".