Support team work / Formação de grupo de apoio na escola: ferramenta para mudanças e transformações nas práticas educacionais

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

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This study aims at investigating the formation of Support Team Work (STW) in a school. STW is considered in this research as a tool and at the same time as a system of activity which serves as an important context for the collaborative construction of knowledge and transformation of practices in the school community. The questions which guide this research are: In the activities of STW: 1- What roles and division of labor are shared and transformed? 2-What knowledge is built, shared and transformed? Following an ethnographic, critical and collaborative approach (Magalhães, 1994, 1996a, 1996b, 2000, 2002, 2003; Magalhães &Celani, 2005; Magalhães et al., 2006; Magalhães &Fidalgo, 2008) the data were collected during eight meetings of the STW, gathered in a private junior and high school, situated in the farthest south zone of São Paulo city. Besides the researcher, which is the director and owner of the school, the other participants were students parents, teachers, other members of the school and students. This research is rooted to the Social Historical Cultural Activity Theory (TASHC) (Vygotsky, 1932, 1934; Leontiev, 1978, 1981; Engeström, 1987, 1999, 2003, 2008), to the dialogical perspective of language (Bakhtin/Volochinov, 1929) and to the conception that language is a fundamental psychological tool for the process of interaction, learning and development (Vygotsky, 1934; Bernstein, 1987). This work is also based on the discussions about the formation of collaborative groups aiming at thinking about, reflecting about and working out troubles that affect their members (Daniels &Parrila, 2004). The collected data were analyzed according to the following categories: by linguistic analyses in the perspective of the Activity Theory (Engeström, 1999), by the D-Analysis model (Middleton, 2007) and by the use of turns and words (Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 2006). The results lead to the difficulty of the transformation of practices. One of the possible explanation for the results is that STW was constituted as a very heterogeneous group, formed by the initiative of the director of the school, in which the participants were members of the school community that have different places and roles which are well marked also by hierarchy. The results showed that there was little transformation, but even this slight movement of the object of the activity can be considered as a propulsion tool. It is important to relate that according to the TASHC, historicity can only be taken into consideration if one focuses on a process of change of practice that comprehend large periods of time in which the practices have occur. This way, it can be said that the little transformations were greatly significative. As far as this research is concerned it will be able to help teachers, students, parents, members of school staff, directors in the organizations and in the constitution of places where actions might be discussed by negotiations of roles, which can contribute to the learning that the community aims for all students. In specific terms this research aims at contributing to the fact that STW can be a democratic place of mediation among members of the school community looking forward to help in the education of all students, in order to make them autonomous citizens, well integrated in the society, able to express points of view and to take initiatives with others (Vygotsky,1932)

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pratica de ensino linguistica aplicada trabalho de grupo na educacao grupo de apoio

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