“Eu quero que meu bebê nasça bem e depois eu vejo”: mães adolescentes e trajetória escolar.

Abstract

This article analyzes the pertinent questions regarding the expectations and school trajectories of adolescent mothers. I sought to analyze which aspects corroborate the interest / disinterest, continuity / pause in the school life of adolescent mothers, identifying their trajectories and expectations formation, investigating how social issues influence in this decision making, especially the cases that lead to the permanent abandonment of the school during or after the pregnancy considered to be precocious. As a theoretical contribution, I took Pierre Bourdieu's discussions on social inequality, taste, trajectory, social classes, fields, distinction and their unfolding as the guiding axes. These analyzes were carried out based on cuttings of dialogues made by the author with six adolescent mothers, which were part of her dissertation research (CAVALCANTE, 2018). Mothers are between sixteen and eighteen years of age, out of school, living with their parents, and experiencing the first pregnancy. As a result of the analysis, I found that pregnancy is not the only reason why mothers leave school, there are sociocultural factors that directly interfere in this non-permanence. I conclude that for these mothers the school often presents itself as a space for "free" people who "have no impediments" to study and, having a child, disqualifies them from the promising student profile, intimidating the return to school space, these adolescent mothers have expectations for the future through informal work, technical training and, to a lesser extent, a desire to take a higher education course, but are not qualified to do so. Finally, it was possible to observe the importance of the family in this process of return / non-return, which comes from this institution the main influence and support network so that the adolescent mother can experience experiences typical of youth / adolescence.