Abstract

LOPES, Carlos  and  EVANGELISTA, Jéssica Reis. The production of public school symbolic effect in students access to higher education. ETD [online]. 2018, vol.20, n.1, pp.49-65. ISSN 1676-2592.  https://doi.org/10.20396/etd.v20i1.8647431.

The article addresses both the production and the paradoxes of the symbolic effect of the High School public institution during the access of students to public universities. The school bases its action on selective exams for higher education, even if the High School has other purposes such as preparing students for work and citizenship. The expected effect of the school is the symbolic school effect, derived from the symbolic power, which, in the terms of Bourdieu (2004), is a power to do things, power of acclamation or revelation and that exists for others when distinguished. From the selection of a public school in Distrito Federal (DF), which received in the media the repercussion for having students who entered the University of Brasilia (UnB), a documental analysis of the Political Pedagogical Project of the school, a survey of 81 (eighty-one) High School students and interviews with the school principal were undertaken. The construction of the symbolic effect of the school results occurs in the midst of paradoxes such as the non-involvement of all teachers in the preparation of students for selective exams; structurally, in macro and micro scales, it confirms the crisis of the Brazilian High School in search of direction. The tendency is that schools seek its particularities by social distinction, deepening inequality, conservation and hierarchy in the school system.

Keywords : School; Symbolic Effect; High School; Exams; Public University.

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