Programa Bolsa Família e condicionalidades: Escola Municipal Indígena Tengatui Marangatu

Abstract

The Federal Government, through the Public Politics in the year 2003, unified the program of transference of income called the Family Grand Program – FGP [Programa Bolsa Família – PBF] to the usage of basic services, among them the education. This program tries to minimize the difficulties and improve the life conditions of the families who are in a situation of vulnerability and social risk. The aim of this research is to study of the Family Grand Program – FGP and the implications in the education of the Guarani Kaiowá, Guarani Nandéva children from the Native Municipal School Tengatui Marangatu. The research method was developed through literature, documents analysis and study of cases. The place for collecting data was the native school inside the Native Area of Dourados (RID). The data collection field occurred in the indigenous school unit in the Indigenous Reserve of Dourados – RID. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the program manager, educators and mothers of children. The selected categories of analysis were: the conception of FGP, the conditionality of the program in education, the perception of interviewed about the FGP. When analyzing the social and educational politics, giving special attention to the indigenous matters on specific politics, among which is inserted the FGP conditionalities, contradictions were observed when related to the educational and social guarantees declared in the 1988 Constitution for the indigenous people. The results of the current research highlighted significant information about the indigenous school attendance with the PBF. It has been found that the coordination, the teachers and some mothers that took part in this research knew little of the FGP conditionings. One of the facts that could be pointed out from this research is that the FGP exigencies are limited to the school attendance control. This program could lead to other encouragements in order to increase the families’ support at school, giving the students motivation to study with more enthusiasm. These research’s results are expected to cast a new glance over the specificities of the FGP education conditionalities once related to the indigenous people matters.