The choice of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Minas Gerais/Ribeirão das Neves Campus and the school-related work of families

ABSTRACT This article results from research that aimed to understand the schoolwork of families in the process of choosing the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Minas Gerais (IFMG), Ribeirão das Neves campus. To do so, I employed a profile analysis of the students and the families that had children enrolled in the courses of this institution. I investigated how the families’ schoolwork took place in the process of defining the teaching institution of their children and, finally, I investigated if different families presented different strategies that defined their choice for the teaching institution in question. As a result, the study pointed out the different families’ habitus action while choosing the teaching institution; the families’ schoolwork, highlighted by their pedagogical, psychological, social, and economic efforts; the mothers’ agency in conducting their families’ school formation.