EDUCATION AND FEMALE EMPOWERMENT OF STUDENTS IN QUEIMADAS-PB, BRAZIL

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the schooling process and the empowerment of female students of Youth and Adult Education in the city of Queimadas-PB. It was a qualitative research, with the use of a questionnaire containing open and closed questions, applied to 12 students who are studying Youth and Adult Education in the city of Queimadas-PB in 2019. It was found that the schooling process acts as an active and sometimes liberating factor in the lives of these women, since access to school education has made several changes in their lives possible, thus resulting in the achievement of autonomy, access to opportunities, in their critical training, since knowledge in addition to emancipating it empowers, influences the increase of self-esteem and a better performance in its activities. The reason they made them return to their studies is directed to the act to make good use of the practice of reading and writing, in order to modify various actions in their lives, as well as aiming to raise the level of knowledge in order to value themselves personally, knowing their rights and fighting for these to be fulfilled and consequently altering their quality of life, in which they seek to raise the level of education, professional appreciation, respect, autonomy and freedom.