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| Author(s): |
Anabela Almeida Costa e Santos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2008-04-15 |
| Examining board members: |
Marilene Proenca Rebello de Souza;
Belmira Amelia de Barros Oliveira Bueno;
Anne Marie Louise Chartier;
Sergio Antonio da Silva Leite;
Adriana Marcondes Machado
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| Advisor: | Marilene Proenca Rebello de Souza |
| Abstract | |
This research investigates notebooks and further records composed mainly by students within a school context. Over the fact school records are fundamental elements in school routines, there are still few studies on them. Works in Psychology, that had been devoted to this theme, benefit the understanding of these school productions as based on Psychometrics, also, as pure student\'s personality and affective-emotional states expressions. This way of comprehending these school produced records reveals itself inappropriate, once it considers them just as students personal productions, ignoring the institutional and relational context within school activities are done. This research was conducted by the necessity of constructing referentials to psychologically comprehend the school recordings that embrace the school proccesses which constitute the backgrounds of these records realization. The research, conducted by Critical School Psychology and Educational Ethnography theoretical-methodological parameters, is composed by three stages. The first stage was conducted in a First Grade classroom of a Brazilian Elementary public school, situated in a city in São Paulo State (southeastern Brazil); the second stage, conducted in the same school, took place in a Fourth Grade classroom; and the third stage embraces a set of French public school classrooms (equivalent to the first stage of Elementary Brazilian school). The first and the second stages lasted, each one, for one school year and were consisted of participative classroom observations and interviews with students and teachers. The French stage, that lasted about two and a half months, was consisted of participative observations in eight classrooms and interviews with teachers. Special attention was given to analysis of Fourth Grade related informations which had the objective of answering the following questions: Where is it recorded? Who is the recorder? What is recorded? How is it recorded? Why and for what is it recorded? The Fourth Grade context found was compared to the First Grade\'s, aiming to characterize processes and learnings, mediated by records compositions necessary to students for school culture insertion. The information gathered from French stage made it possible to identify how notebooks produced in other cultural contexts are different. This research reveals the background of students\' school productions, describing aspects that escape from recording possibility, but are fundamental to the understanding of those materials. The results found reveals that the psychologist willing to use notebooks and other school records as working tools must investigate, carefully, in which institutional, relational and situational conditions those documents were produced. (AU) | |