Abstract

FRANCO, Maria Laura Puglisi Barbosa  and  VARLOTTA, Yeda Maria Da Costa Lima. As representações sociais de professores do ensino médio. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2004, vol.15, n.30, pp.17-28. ISSN 0103-6831.

This paper aims at characterizing the Social Representations - SR - that middle school teachers build, develop and elaborate concerning aspects related to Public Space, School Administration and Pedagogical Practice. The subjects of this study were 875 state middle school teachers in the state of São Paulo, covering its municipality, Greater São Paulo as well as the inland. Teachers completed a questionnaire with “open” and “closed” questions. Answers were submitted to careful content analysis to identify underlying meanings. Results indicate, among other findings,  that public school is represented as a space where needs are never met. This representation, anchored on various elements as to what is still missing, what still needs to be done, carries an ever-present negative function of not recognizing important actions taken to improve teaching conditions, thus consolidating an idea of continuous neglect by state authorities toward education. This, in turn, surfaces in attitudes and behavior at school and in the classroom.

Keywords : Social representations; qualitative research; middle school; content analysis.

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