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GOLBSPAN, Ricardo Boklis  y  GANDIN, Luís Armando. The Tiger on the Raft: exclusion and contradiction in the routine of a scholarship student at a private school. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2025, vol.41, e95784.  Epub 14-Abr-2025. ISSN 1984-0411.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1984-0411.95784.

This paper seeks to contribute to the field of sociological studies of education regarding family-school relations. With this intention, the investigation aims to understand how a young scholarship student from a working-class family, from a second-year class in a private upper-middle-class school, faces exclusion in his school routine. Exploring an exceptional class contradiction - a student from a working-class family in an upper-middle-class school - paves the way for understanding the processes of exclusion within Brazilian private schools, which still remain as a sociological “closed box”. Methodologically, the “ethnographic imagination” is mobilized, according to Paul Willis, and scenes of the school routine resulting from participant observation are presented, in addition to interviews with students and teachers. The discussion indicates the various dimensions of the process of exclusion experienced by the student studied within the private school, highlighting 1) symbolic power and material inequality, operating in conjunction with the day-to-day schooling process of the scholarship student; 2) institutional legitimation, through school discourses, regarding the student’s academic failure; 3) the forms of mediation and negotiation with which the student actively responds to school exclusion. The results of the research point to the importance of microsociological research within schools for the proper understanding and interruption of educational inequalities.

Palabras clave : Family-School Relations; Middle Classes; Ethnography; Youth.

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