The Production and Reproduction of Educational Inequalities in the Formation of Brazil’s Working Class

Against the backdrop of the growing devaluation of the value of labor power and the persistence of the structural duality of the national education system, this article aims to analyse how profound inequalities in the Brazilian schooling process take shape nowadays. This discussion is supported by a set of empirical data from three state primary and secondary schools and one Youth and Adult Education center and highlights the conditions under which children and young people study, including the relationship between the process of social reproduction of their families and the logic underpinning the organisation of pedagogical work in schools.