O significado e os sentidos que alunos do ensino fundamental atribuem à escola

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

This study was developed from questions about different performance among students of the same social and economic level and aimed at investigating the relationship between the meaning and senses ascribed to the school by students of the 5th grade of Primary School, and their school performance. The study was conducted in a State public school located in a district of the Western Area of the City of São Paulo throughout the year of 2007. The assumption was that the meaning and the senses the children ascribe to the school are different and related to both their school performance senses ascribed by virtue of good or poor performance and the educational practices in class positive and negative senses ascribed to them. The analysis of data was made in light of theoretical referential of Social Sciences authors, primarily Bourdieu and collaborators. To collect the data, we have used questionnaires answered by parents of students aiming at better characterizing the population from an economic and cultural standpoint, and questionnaires and interview guides aiming at identifying the meaning and senses each student assigned to the school. We have conducted class observation and analyzed students school materials, such as copybooks and lessons searching for the relationship between the data collected and the content of the different testimonies in the interviews. We have further conducted interviews with teachers aiming at identifying how they have graded the school performance of the students, the criteria taken into account and how they assessed a good and a poor performance. Results indicated that, overall, school means the future, the possibility of a better life and social ascension. This perspective was addressed by Pierre Bourdieu while explaining that access to school for certain portion of the population meant the possibility of reaching positions viewed as hierarchically higher. We have also observed two axes of senses. The first one - the school that teaches: it teaches how to read and write; it teaches education, discipline and respect; it teaches how to live with others; and the second axis - the school that removes from streets. It was possible to establish relations between these two axes and the childrens school performance, as well as with their experience inside the school. We have further noticed that teachers who participated in this study had very different evaluation systems; some evaluations were based on personal conduct and characteristics, rather than on school performance. The analysis has demonstrated they are related to the students origin conditions

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evaluation rendimento escolar educacao estudantes do ensino fundamental primary school significado de escola avaliação escolar school performance ensino fundamental meaning of school

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