A CENTRALIDADE DA EDUCAÇÃO NO COMBATE À POBREZA: a visão de profissionais que atuam com populações empobrecidas

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the conceptions of education and poverty by professionals in education and others involved with impoverished populations enrolled in the Cursos de Especialização e Aperfeiçoamento em Educação, Pobreza e Desigualdade Social (Specialization Courses in Education, Poverty and Social Inequality), offered by the Federal University of Santa Catarina and by the University of Brasília, which aimed to discuss the centrality attributed to education in the fight against poverty. It is part of a broader research based on a quantitative and qualitative perspective regarding the approach, basic regarding the nature, exploratory and descriptive regarding the objectives, and bibliographic and documentary regarding the procedures. It concludes that there may be a diminishing role of education in the fight against poverty.

Keywords

• education
• poverty
• professionals in social policies