Por uma concepção política de conflito escolar

Abstract

Based on intervention-research fulfilled in two public schools in the state of Rio de Janeiro and the emergence of the reflexive groups performed with youngsters from the ninth grade of elementary school and the third year of high school, the present article analyzes the logic present in the conception of conflict in the school context. Within this scenario fights, discussions, controversies, dissensions, disagreements emerge daily. In a space in which normatization is mostly perceived as care, an end to control and to train young people to become skilled labor in the future, the deviation serves as the starting point for definition of the norm. The conflict can be understood from a positivist look at the individual, generalizing, individualistic, intimate, representative - here Psychology emerges, insofar its intervention is based on the diagnostic prevention of disorders and dysfunctions. Based on the theoretical-methodological framework of the Latin American Liberation Psychology and French Institutional Analysis, it is proposed to guide the conflict as relations of power, oppression, discrimination, inequality, social structures: a political conception of school conflict. It is, therefore, necessary to deindividualize the demands that emerge as conflict and bring tensions, social relations, coexistence, the politics of youth relations that inhabit schools.