Construção do currículo escolar: a produção de sentidos de professores e alunos sobre as práticas pedagógicas no cotidiano da escola da Baixada Fluminense

Abstract

This thesis presents the variety of feelings and meanings that are produced in the everyday life at school, through the pedagogical practices, which reflect different individual and group conceptions and experiences, from both the teacher and from the pupils perspective. This allowed the understanding of the nature of how the school curriculum is built, based on the teaching practices and their relation to the learning process. Therefore, we performed a qualitative research with an ethnographic approach by adopting procedures such as participant observation, document analysis, interviews, among others. The main subjects of this study are teachers as well as the students of the 7th school grade, from two public schools from the city of Sao Joao de Meriti, in the Baixada Fluminense Region - Rio de Janeiro. The theoretical and methodological framework that supported this study is based on the policy cycle approach proposed by Stephen Ball (1994), which the importance of the interrelationship of the school curriculum builders contexts. We worked with the context of writing texts, through the analysis of documents issued in the period between the years 1999-2010, as well as with context of practice. This work has also the theoretical background of Sacristán (1998, 2000), Moreira (1990, 2001, 2003), Silva (1998, 2001, 2006, 2008), Lopes (2005, 2008a), Tura (2001, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011), Bourdieu (1998, 1999), Foucault (1993, 2001), among others. For the data analysis, we employed content analysis approach from Bardin (2004). As outcome, the study showed the complexity of the process of creating a school curriculum in the everyday school life, bearing in mind that different practices and speeches are produced in the various contexts, in which processes, which are noticeable by their re-contextualization through hybridity, according to the analysis of Ball (2000) and Lopes (2008), emerge between the "proposed policy" and the "employed policy (MAINARDES, 2006). This study makes a contribution for studies within the school curriculum landscape, which may indicate potential directions for public policies in the education area for the Sao Joao de Meriti city.