Educação em Perspectiva

The school principal’s action towards addressing high school dropout in the São Paulo state education network

Nonato Assis de Miranda — 2021-01-10

This paper aims to analyze the school principals’ actions of the São Paulo State Department of Education (SEDUC-SP) towards addressing the high dropout rates pointed out in High School, since the practices and decisions of these professionals can generate significant repercussions on the students’ trajectory. This is a qualitative approach research, whose data were obtained through interviews with principals from seven public schools of SEDUC-SP. The school principals’ statements were analyzed and interpreted from the perspective of Laurence Bardin’s Content Analysis, and in the light of the literature on the subject. The results show that, among other elements, early student entry into the labor market is the main reason for dropouts in High School; however, the performance of school principals has been instrumental in reducing high dropout rates.

The university pedagogy and teacher training for basic education

Paulo Fioravante Giareta — 2021-01-12

This article indicates some theoretical approaches regarding the possibilities and challenges for the consolidation of a university pedagogy for the college education of teachers to work in Basic Education. It is methodologically linked to the historical dialectical conception, using the Content Analysis technique (BARDIN, 2002). The research points to the theoretical-methodological achievements in the scope of the production of research on university pedagogy in the context of Brazilian higher education and to the difficulties overcoming the characteristics of a historical experience of university pedagogy in Brazil, setting a scenario of dispute between current pedagogical achievements and the technical-professionalizing, fragmented and utilitarian tradition of higher education.

Does the order of the factors change the result?

Ester Mendonça Ramos — 2021-01-15

The article presents an investigation that used mathematical games proposed by the National Pact of Literacy at the Right Age (PNAIC). The objective was to analyze episodes related to the multiplicative field, referring to the game “A boot of many leagues”. The researcher's reflections are presented, alluding to the experiences provided by the use of the game. Field diaries, photographs, audio and video recordings were used. As a result, the analyzes on the approach of the multiplicative field indicate the potential of the use of pedagogical practices supported by games to expand the understanding of the referred content by the children, through the mediation of the teacher, which contributed to the resolution of the problem situation presented. Still, it was verified the importance of identifying the multiplier and the multiplicand, although the commutativity, present in the multiplication, does not change the result of the operation.

Popular knowledge and Science Teaching

Karine Arriaga Almerini — 2021-12-20

Popular knowledge can be considered the raw gem of scientific knowledge. However, quite often the school environment does not offer due attention to the local culture, hindering the appreciation and even the learning of such knowledge by many students. The objective of this research is to survey the main popular beliefs in the municipality of Laguna, Santa Catarina. To achieve this goal, a questionnaire was applied, in which 270 participants (including teachers, administrators and parents of students from public and private schools in Laguna SC) answered questions about popular beliefs and myths they know. 13 of the more frequently mentioned beliefs were raised and confronted with scientific knowledge about the topic. The elaborated survey aims at a better understanding of the so-called alternative knowledge which students may enroll in school being already aware of. As part of the results, in the final section, a philosophical reflection on everyday knowledge and pedagogical possibilities of this knowledge was sought.

Race, class and gender

Juliana Moreira Borges — 2021-12-21

This article aims at reviewing the available literature on research papers investigating the education of ethnic-racial relations from the perspective of black families. This crosscut was extracted from articles in the “Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Educação” [National Association of Postgraduate and Research in Education] - ANPEd database, between the years 2011 and 2019. The descriptor terms used in the search were intersectionality; education; ethnic-racial relations. The study groups analyzed were GTs 03, 04, 07, 21 and 23, with greater use of GTs 07 and 21. The conclusion is that this work enabled a greater contact with available research, which granted familiarity with the field and with existing loopholes, which became clear in the course of this article.

Experience as a mobilising process in professional development

Pascal Roquet — 2022-07-03

Formative or professional experience can be used in many different ways to understand the construction of the professionalization process of a person, an activity or an organization. Our reflexion process will be based on a theoretical frame, who’s referring to experience and professionalization and a methodological frame resulting from the comprehensive approach. We will then present three levels of professionalization with specific examples (macro, meso and micro) that will allow us to grasp different conceptions and roles of experience during the professionalization process. So finally, this experience is a part of a lived temporality that refers to identity issues that are both formative and professional.