Sucesso e fracasso escolar nas famílias populares: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The basic problem that guided the research is the quest for understanding the management of the education of children of families with certain economic profile (low level of education and income), whose children get results very different school. For both, picked up a group of twenty students: then cases of "success" and then cases of "relative success" or "school failure" of students belonging to the classes, students in fifth of years of education of a municipal school located in the municipality of Paraiba do Sul in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The theoretical perspective adopted lies in the framework of an "anthropology of interdependence" inspired by Norbert Elias, particularly the concept of social configuration made by this. The material of empirical research led to the following sources: documentary analysis of pupils; interview with former and current teachers of students; interview with families in their homes and ethnographic notes on each of the contexts of interview; interview with the Educational Advisor , Director General and Deputy Director of the two schools involved: the current and that some of the students started their schooling. We also examined the following aspects with the families: 1) System of schooling and family members, 2) family forms of written culture and habits of cultural consumption, 3) conditions, economic arrangements and level of satisfaction with their social, 4) Project of life of family members, 5) management of education and participation in the life of the school; 6) Practice of punishment and sanction, 7) expectations of the family in relation to the longevity of school children, 8) perception of the family about the actors school ; 9) Religiosities, political positioning, degree of association, 10) perception of parents on the issues of violence and drugs in school, 11) What the school must teach. The survey found students, whose personal mobilization related to education, and weights are different forms, the knowledge that school is important for the families investigated, even for those families whose children do not get success in school and that their parents participate in the path of most school various forms.