Educational civilization and lower social class: the tissue of a school routine / A civilização escolar e as camadas populares: a tecitura do cotidiano escolar

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

This thesis consisted on an investigation into the practical work in the classrooms of 5th and 6th grades of Elementary School in a private religious school in Rio de Janeiro close to Favela do Vidigal and Chacara do Ceu which had made the innovative choice of attending to the lower class from these communities. It was their option for the poor which drew our attention as it waved the possibility of some transforming act as they were attending to a disadvantaged population. The literature on education centered in what today is called school culture understands that the ritual of every school internal organization frames a beam of routines, uses and costumes, knowledge and values which are not only part of the institution but above all they form the institution. The main axis of analysis was to look round this schools specific cultural universe to see what was happening in their daily life. For the comprehension of such forms the researcher is requested a more attentive look upon: what is going on in the classroom, what happens with the groups along the corridors, the administrative staffs observations, the teachers dispositions, the students parents statements, the signs through which the students register their perception about life at school. He sought to understand the socio-cultural implications and changes in the politic-pedagogical project by the Centro Popular Stella Maris which had previously attended to middle and upper-class students and now attends to the lower class and kept on with the same board of teachers. The strategies used in the field survey were observation in the classroom, case studies and interviews with the key stakeholders: students, teachers, coordinators and mothers from the community. For the data analysis we established as categories: culture as seen by the community and according to teachers and coordinators view; the school viewed by the community parents and the teachers and coordinators view of the community; the pedagogical relations and the establishment of ties; the strategies and pedagogical resources used for teaching. With this research we intend to bring this innovation into public knowledge as it re-signifies school environment for the lower class in order to assist public schools to put into practice innovative actions in what concerns to the possibility of overcoming students difficulties in learning by means of the school. Studies by Souza Patto, Bourdieu and Dubet among others guided our research and based our analysis on this educational experience. Our conclusions were that the school in modernity has gradually presented its civilizing aspect or its desire to inscribe a previous cultural model, prescribed beforehand, in childrens and youth education which is still present today and particularly in the practices which intend to offer good quality schooling to lower classes.

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civilização escolar globalization cultura schooling escolarização camadas populares culture mundialização favela lower class favelas educational civilization

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