Entre alunos, seus professores e o fracasso escolar: reflexões sobre o conflito de sentidos na escola pública contemporânea

Abstract

This research presents some issues related to school failure inside the universe of the municipal schools, especially in the Rio de Janeiro city, assuming that the difficulties the teachers have been finding nowadays in performing their functions interfere in their students academic lives. The following questions will be present: In what does it consist being a student in the fundamental school? In what does it consist being a teacher in the fundamental school? How does it explain the school in the pos-modernity? How does it explain the contemporary subject? How does the knowledge construction happen in face of all these facts? In order to theoretically substantiate these investigation themes, this research is articulated among Piaget as defining the knowledge subject of the learning-teaching process, Vygotsky as explaining the contemporary subject, Stuart Hall as interpreting the cultural identity in the contemporaneity and Luiz Antonio Gomes Senna in his studies and theories about the contemporary public school, its subjects and how the knowledge construction occurs. The research involved bibliographic data about the themes contemporaneity, identity, school, contemporary subject, knowledge subject, the relation teacher/student/learning and the knowledge construction.