Novas e velhas barreiras à escolarização da juventude

Abstract

The transformation of Brazilian education over the last three decades has changed the social and institutional landscape for the schooling of youth, with the expansion of secondary school enrollment, and the emergence of a significant number of young people who represent the first generation in their families to obtain a university degree. However, the question remains whether or not the educational inequalities faced by young people have been eliminated, minimized, increased or reshaped to new forms of educational stratification. Nowadays, does secondary school remain a barrier for the completion of compulsory education? Or, on the contrary, has the transition to postsecondary education been constrained by bottlenecks in the admission process? By framing socioeconomic, racial and gender relations, this article reflects on both existing and newly emerging barriers to youth schooling in Brazil between the 1990s and the current decade.