A educação como veículo de sobrevivência e busca de mobilidade social: representações de atores e instituições

Abstract

This work has the proposal to study the social representations about education constructed by pupils, teachers and institutions, trying to apprehend them in its conflictive forms; it situates the quarrels put in relation to the formation of teachers´ politics, and mainly in relation to the Full Licenciature of Fundamental Teaching Course (1rst and 2nd cicles) of URCA. In it, alternatives answers are searched for the questions: how actors and institutions incorporate the official politics for education? What meanings are constructed by the teachers-pupils based on their experience in this course? The social representations constructed by actors and institutions were used as empirical reference. To reach such an objective the concept of Social Representation, the habitus notion and the Pierre Bourdieu field concept were used as analysis categories. It was verified that the comprehension of the educational act and of the pedagogical practices involves a technical-pedagogic dimension with emphasis in the teaching-learning, a political dimension that leads to the social transformation, becoming an utopia and a pragmatic dimension for which education is looked for as a means to survival and social mobility.