Representações sociais sobre um Colégio de Aplicação: um estudo com os professores

• Main Authors: Lísia Regina Ferreira Michels, Maria Helena Villares Cordeiro, Paula Correa Tavares
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editora Universitária Champagnat - PUCPRESS 2011-01-01
• Series: Revista Diálogo Educacional
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=189119299008

This research aimed at characterizing the social representations of teachers working in a Colégio de Aplicação (a school maintained by a university) in Southern Brazil, we focused on the institution where they work at. The existence of different social representations of teachers can affect the relationships between teachers at different educational levels and, consequently, their professional development. For this study it was adopted a pluri methodological approach, organized into two distinct stages. For the first stage, a questionnaire was administered to 51 school teachers. For the second stage three teachers from each school level were chosen randomly and interviewed. The interview was initiated by the technique procedure of multiple classifications, the statements were recorded and transcribed for qualitative analysis. From the speech of the teachers, it was possible to confirm the social representations of them on the school, as a result of it, three categories of social representations were revealed, the first category corresponds to the necessary materials for the students learning. The second category refers to the related items to what would be an ideal of professionalism in an institutional dimension. The third category refers to personal attributes of teacher quality.