Abstract

VIEIRA, Juliana de Souza Ferreira; FERREIRA, Karla Patrícia Martins  and  CASTRO, Mariana Ribeiro de. Affections, meanings and perceptions related to the school environment for high school students. Educ. Teoria Prática [online]. 2022, vol.32, n.65, e28. ISSN 1981-8106.  https://doi.org/10.18675/1981-8106.v32.n.65.s16039.

This article aims to analyze theaffections, meanings and perceptions of the school environment for young students from a public school in Fortaleza, Brazil, from the perspective of Historical-Cultural Theory and Environmental Psychology. Such analysis considers, therefore, the person-environment relations as generators of a mutuality of affections that interfere in the way young people think, feel, perceive and behave in the school space. This affectation causes changes in the interrelations that occur between young students and the educational environment, favoring participation, involvement or withdrawal from school. 42 young people from the 2nd year of high school participated in the qualitative research, and the Generating Affective Maps Instrument (IGMA) was used for data collection. The results indicated that students internalize social meanings about the school environment as if they were their own senses; the affections unveiled about this place are ambiguous, contrasting happiness and/or prejudice; the school is a place of interrelationships that affect and transform the person as well as the environment, in addition to being a place for projecting dreams and expectations, perspectives and preparation for the future.

Keywords : School; Perception; Environmental Psychology.

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