Women youth from countryside areas: directions on education and perspectives on the future

Abstract This article aims to promote reflections about the education and future perspectives of young rural women living in different cities in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Interviews and photographic compositions were carried out, both understood as narrative productions, with forty - eight young people. Following an analytical process based on the assumptions of Grounded Theory, seven interviews were selected and studied in depth, considering two aspects: to be representative of the state mesoregions and to indicate transversal contents: educational trajectory, life projects, profession and future. This study points out that the school has a function beyond formal learning, consisting of a space of leisure and coexistence, of construction of identifications and also of projection for the future beyond the professional field, however, also evidences the lack of a work of particularized orientation to those youths.