Participação da família nas atividades escolares: o caso da Escola Estadual Professor Pedro Calmon

Abstract

The present dissertation was conducted within the scope of the Professional Master’s course in Management and Evaluation of Education (PPGP) of the Public Policies and Evaluation of Education Center at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). This management case had the purpose of discussing the relationship between school and family, and its importance for the students’ education and democratic management, focused on the school’s community. The research matters since the numbers of enrolled students and the participative parents show that participation is low. Because of that, the general objective is to identify the main causes of the low family participation at the pedagogical activities proposed by the school’s team. As specific objectives, this dissertation tried to investigate and analyze the possible reasons for the lack of participation and to propose an Educational Action Plan to decrease this problem. We assume, as a hypothesis, that families see the schools the main educational place for their children, however, the parents don’t see themselves as capable of helping them in academic activities. Besides, they are also not interested in going to school in their free time when invited. To theoretical research, there were used the following authors: Oliveira e Marinho-Araújo (2010), Cantanhêde (2016), Dessen e Polônia (2005, 2007), Saraiva-Junges e Wagner (2016), Dazzani e Faria (2009), Souza (2009), Rocha (1996), Faria Filho (2000), Gomes (2016), Castro e Regattieri (2009), Cury (2002), Paro (1992, 2007, 2008), Santana (2018), Brito e Carnielli (2011), Lück (2009) e Zago (2011). For data generation, it was used as a methodology the qualitative research using as the main method, the interview application. There were interviewed six students’ mothers and two educational specialists, who work at the researched institution. Through the collected data, there were proposed intervention actions, through an Educational Action Plan. The strategies tried to motivate families to participate in school activities.