Pedagogia da idade – o discurso sobre o velho e o envelhecimento no ambiente escolar

Abstract

This work aimed to realize: (a) the speech and ideas produced and reproduced at the school environment about aging and old-age people, and (b) how Schools, while dynamic organisms, conceive The Elderly Statute, its practice and the aging process in the Brazilian population. Using as methodology the qualitative research, with the help of close and structured interview connected to the use of photographs as inducement boards, it has been interviewed four persons who work at the Pedagogical Coordination in some high-school level institutes in the city. The data analysis was conducted based on theoretical references from Marxism and a social and historical perspective. Through this perspective, it could be identified, in the speech of the interviewed persons, three of several dialectics fundamental categories: a) ideology, b) activity and c) consciousness. These categories, in their turn, make it possible not only ascertainings concerning the purposes of the research, but also those arising out of the informal communication which permeated the interview context, making it possible some reflexion about and enlargement of the knowledge apprehended through the activity of researching. The conclusions indicated the ignorance of The Elderly Statute, an inexistence of research concerning aged people and that ideas, values and speeches reproduced at the school environment, make evident the commercialization of old people class, giving it a non–historical and naturalized character.