Educação, escola e habitus: um estudo das práticas informais na escola pública

Abstract

This is a study of informal practices in Brazilian public schools, based on Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice (2009), which proposes that the social logic is guided by ordination principles, “structuring structures”, neither a full conscious product nor an unconscious one. Therefore, analyzing the everyday school means trying to comprehend which are the ordination principles that rule this specific universe. Aiming to investigate the relation between Education and informal practices, this research had as a field a public school of primary and secondary education on the periphery of Fortaleza — having in mind the preservation of the institution, its name was omitted in this work. This way, all the agents of school community like directors, teachers, employees and students are subjects in the present investigation, which core is composed by the following questions: Which are the implications of the informal practices on the everyday of a public school? Which is the place of formal and informal on the debate about the Brazilian character? Why informal practices and not jeito, jeitinho or jeitão? Which is the relation between Education and informality? Which are the historical, social and economical contexts of the mentioned school? Which is the relation between the surrounding of this institution and the informal practices? What informal practices are and which is their relation with the habitus concept? In sum: Which is the place of the informal practices in a formal institution of public education in Brazil? The investigation of the everyday in the referred school indicated a chronic dependence of informal strategies in order to guarantee the institutional functioning (administration) as well as the ordinary activities, namely: the classes, the cultural and sportive activities, the science fairs, the outdoor classes etc. The present work proposes that the informal practices operate as habitus (2009), it means, a diffuse institution (DOUGLAS,1998) which works both in order to guarantee the rituals (MACLAREN,1992) of the school and to function as a culture against it (WILLIS, 1991). The research was financed by public resources through CNPq.