As professoras de 4ª série do 1º grau de diferentes camadas sociais suas representações acerca da relação professor-aluno

Abstract

This work is an investigation that began in 1992 with the teachers of the 4ª série do 1º grau in public and private schools in João Pessoa - Paraíba (Brazil). It is an empirical investigation and many aspects of the daily life in schools are involved taking into account the teacher's representation. A qualitative investigation was used because it makes the proposed questions deeper taking into account the teachers statements. An open questionnaire as used to colect the statements. A hundred (100) teachers were contacted: fifty (50) from public schools and fifty (50) from private schools. The Content Analisys procedures (Bardin, 1979) were used to see the teacher's statements and we tried to identity classification categories for two themes: the representation of the teacher in relation to the profession (Theme 2). In the first theme, the representation that teachers have about the relation teecher-student the daily life in schools, and the about teaching-learning process have been worked. The analisys the second theme was fundamented in the idea that the opinion atitudes and the representation that teachers have in relation to their profession influences the pedagogic relations in the classroom.