Full text
| |
| Author(s): |
Karen Tereza Marcolino Polaz
Total Authors: 1
|
| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação |
| Defense date: | 2012-12-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Ana Maria Fonseca de Almeida;
Maria Alice Nogueira;
Luiz Fernando Rojo Mattos;
Letícia Bicalho Canedo;
Agueda Bernardete Bittencourt
|
| Advisor: | Ana Maria Fonseca de Almeida |
| Abstract | |
This research investigates the processes involved in the formation of social boundaries in high income families in relation to other groups and how these boundaries are maintained over the course of time. The educational practices of families associated with the most selective club, in economic terms, of a large city in the interior of the state of Sao Paulo were analysed. In particular, the research focused on the children involved in the horsemanship/equitation course and on the competitive activities carried out by the horsemanship/equitation department. The field work consisted of observations of the classes, as well as of the tests applied in the club and of extensive and semi-structured interviews with mothers, fathers, children and also with some of the staff. The club is seen in this study as one of the places where the associates seem to be among their peers, and where their children can be exposed to the learning of the values, life styles, sensibilities, skills, perceptions appropriate to the social group they are destined to be affiliated with. The results show how the educational experiences, including the passage through this "elite sport", contribute to the constitution of a way to perceive oneself and others, that may be or may not be directly related to the concrete forms of acting on the social environment. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/04733-4 - The intergeneration transmission of inequality: children education in high income families |
| Grantee: | Karen Teresa Marcolino Polaz |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |