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CAMPOLINA, Luciana de Oliveira  e  OLIVEIRA, Maria Cláudia Santos Lopes de. Cultura escolar e práticas sociais: episódios cotidianos da vida escolar e a transição para a adolescência. Educ. Pesqui. [online]. 2009, vol.35, n.02, pp.369-380. ISSN 1517-9702.

It is a commonly held position that culture plays a central role in the psychological development of human beings. Considering the plural nature of the socio-institutional contexts that take part in the configuration of a specific cultural context, it becomes essential to investigate how the school culture participates in human development, how it influences the processes of change, and outlines typical trajectories. The present study looks into the school as a cultural context, and analyzes spontaneous interactions between students belonging to 5th and 6th grade classes during breaktime, with a view to understand how the school contributes to circumscribe a specific development process: the transition from childhood to adolescence. The method adopted here involved sessions of observation of daily activities in the classroom and in the schoolyard of a public school of Fundamental Education located in Brazil's capital city. An episode taken as material for analysis consisted of a make-believe game played by a group of pupils during breaktime. The analysis of the episode reveals as its main themes the symbolic transgression of school rules, and the collectively built representations about adolescence. The analyses also point to two lines of reflection about the meaning of the transition to adolescence at school: (1) the role played by school rules in the moral regulation of the body, and in pupils' conducts; and (2) the role of games and adolescent experiences in the transformation of the disciplinary order imposed by the functioning of the schools.

Palavras-chave : Schooling; Subjectivity; Development Transitions.

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