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| Author(s): |
Clarissa Silva de Castilho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Educação (FE/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2009-03-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Teresa Cristina Rebolho Rego de Moraes;
Bernard Jean Jacques Charlot;
Marta Kohl de Oliveira
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| Advisor: | Teresa Cristina Rebolho Rego de Moraes |
| Abstract | |
This qualitative research was developed from the cultural-historical perspective of the human psychological development and investigated the senses of school and knowledge and the relationships students of a public and private school in the city of Sao Paulo have with them. Data collection consisted of a qualitative questionnaire answered by 7th grade students and semi-structured interviews with some of them. Students were located in the center of the school culture with which they interact, which they produce and by which they are (re)produced and were heard in the schooling process. They were taken out of the condition of objects that only undergo natural (social or biological) contingencies and heard as subjects that, by incorporating cultural practices, re-construct them in their active and own way, negotiating concepts and values. That way, we could observe, from the reports that, apart from some differences, there are many similarities among the relationships that students from different social origins have with the school and knowledge which leads to a somewhat restricted and consonant production of senses about them. Such similarities encompass both factors that would contribute and factors that would hinder ones supposed school success factors that may favor or hinder a meaningful relationship with the school and skills. Also, in some cases, what was expected on one side was found on the other which opposes the determinist logic of the reproduction theories. Thus, considering the voice of the students themselves about the school, this study contributed to the understanding of the senses of school as a place of skills and knowledge, of preparation for the professional future as well as a place of socialization, affection and life. (AU) | |