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| Author(s): |
Anabela Almeida Costa e Santos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. , ilustrações. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2002-06-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Marilene Proenca Rebello de Souza;
Belmira Amelia de Barros Oliveira Bueno;
Adriana Marcondes Machado
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| Advisor: | Marilene Proenca Rebello de Souza |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Psychology |
| Indexed in: |
Banco de Dados Bibliográficos da USP-DEDALUS;
Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações - USP;
Index Psi Teses - IP/USP |
| Location: | Universidade de São Paulo. Biblioteca do Instituto de Psicologia; IP/T LB1051; S237c |
| Abstract | |
This research aims to study the functions and meanings of the notebooks in the first grade of an Elementary Public school. The theoretical and methodological approach was based on an ethnographic perspective. The fieldwork was performed for one year when the researcher did participant observations in the classroom, meetings with the teacher and students and analyzed some student's notebooks. The research focused on the very beginning of notebooks utilization and the learning process relating to the use of this school material. We realized that the notebook is an important didactic instrument which is frequently used in the beginning of the literacy process. In the school context one could identify the functions attributed to the notebooks such as: foundation for developing school activities; record for activities and relationships; control of students, teacher and parents; communication between school and family. For the students, the notebooks have the meanings such as: material associated to copy activities; material which needs always to have a very good appearance; a material which involves knowledge which the majority of the students do not have the possibility of appropriating in this level of schooling; instruments for training, of which utility dwells more in the blank pages than in the registered contents. The offstage study of the notebooks constituted a fundamental element for understanding the information which is inside of these school materials which is produced by the students and teachers as a result of their daily effort. This study also reveals some conceptions for learning and teaching present in the focused schools. (AU) | |