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| Author(s): |
Daniele Kohmoto Amaral
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: | 2010-12-01 |
| Examining board members: |
Denise Trento Rebello de Souza;
Marta Kohl de Oliveira;
Marilene Proenca Rebello de Souza
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| Advisor: | Denise Trento Rebello de Souza |
| Abstract | |
This research looks into a little explored aspect of the Brazilian educational field by dealing with the meanings, the repercussions, and the marks that repeated experiences of school failure at the start of school life leave on the individual\'s school trajectory and life history. To such end, the work starts from the four case studies described by Maria Helena Souza Patto in her A produção do fracasso escolar: histórias de submissão e rebeldia [The production of school failure: histories of submission and rebellion]. How have these people\'s school, and life, histories unfolded? How have they dealt with the experience of school failure throughout their school lives? What place did the school occupy in their lives? Prompted by these questions, the investigation included an empirical study and a wide bibliographical survey. The latter part involved an analysis of the Revista Brasileira de Estudos Pedagógicos [Brazilian Journal of Pedagogical Studies] in the 1991-2008 period on the theme of school failure, in addition to other reference works on this topic. The fieldwork was conducted in a borough of the City of São Paulo, and comprised three stages: 1) locating the subjects; 2) visiting their homes to conduct the interviews (with and without voice recording) based on semi-structured scripts, and preparation of extended records of the visits; 3) analysis of the extended records and of the transcriptions of the interviews. The methodological procedures required developing different strategies to locate the four individuals involved after more than 25 years of the initial investigation; from contacts with long-term residents of the area, local associations, and education directorship and schools, to searches in websites. Theory-wise the analyses of the records and interviews were based on authors that work with oral history and(auto)biographical research, and point to school trajectories that took quite distinct directions. It was possible to observe that the school experiences did not determine in a linear fashion the life paths of the interviewees. Their trajectories resulted from a complex combination involving relationships and experiences with people and institutions, including school-related ones, which are interpreted as (im)possibilities for support or incentive. Situations sometimes imponderable, that result from relations with the world, with other people and with themselves. Life is, therefore, filled by a multiplicity of instances of belonging and interferences, each subject constitutes him/herself from such complex of relationships with various social and cultural groups. In this way, the school turned out to be, in the individuals\' own view, one among the many institutions that concurred to build them. (AU) | |