Jornal Dia a Dia: o elo entre cultura e práticas escolares da Escola da Ponte

Abstract

This study's general objective is to understand a fraction of the school practices carried out at Escola da Ponte, considering the school culture disseminated in that place. To carry out this research, I analyzed the school's newspaper, called Jornal Dia a Dia. This research is in the History of Education field with interface in cultural history. The research work has a documental corpus consisting of one hundred and fourteen editions of Dia a Dia, from November 1977 to January 2017. In this sense, I seek to inquire and reflect upon both the newspaper and Escola da Ponte's technical and content modifications during these four decades. The research results indicate the existence of rupture and maintenance movements regarding the Dia a Dia newspaper. The main ruptures are related to the technologies used in its manufacture, social and political contexts, in which the school was inserted, and the institution's public reader. As for the maintenance movement, the use of Dia a Dia by the Escola da Ponte stands out as it was a mural for the works developed by students, teachers, and parents, making it possible to reverberate school practices to potential readers. It promoted the project Fazer a Ponte (Build the Bridge, in English) and presented its school culture elements. It is noteworthy that Dia a Dia informed the school community about the events of Escola da Ponte, those elected as newsworthy by the newspaper's founders, and sought, intermittently, to mediate the creation of bonds between the school and the students' families. In this way, it ended up getting strengthened.