Narrativa da constituição de uma escola de educação integral por um grupo de professoras envolvidas

Abstract

This dissertation presents the results of a qualitative research that is motivated by the following question: How was the creation of a full-time school in the vision of a group of teachers who participated in the process? The study aimed to tell this story through interviews with the teachers involved. The specific objectives were to identify the steps of this constitution, discover the progress and challenges of this process and recognize its significant value. The issues of full-time education and school, full-time education and the Brazilian education context, the school’s role in the students training and the curricular development for projects are discussed in the theoretical framework. Seven basic education teachers, whose affidavits were analyzed using discursive textual analysis, participated in the study. The analysis revealed three main categories: the school's constitutional movement, the pedagogical dimension of the school, and the network of relationship. These categories represent the lived experiences of the group of teachers during the implementation of this first full-time school in the municipality. The investigation found that it is possible, through joint dialogical and collective efforts, despite some challenges, to overcome the problems related to establishing a full-time school. The findings suggest that it is possible to implement different ways to educate, with innovative proposals that dares in its particularities and specificities, and to seek new ways in the direction of viable possibilities, similar to the approaches taken by the municipal school regarding fulltime education. It was not a pretension to define the experience of this institution and group as an ideal model to follow, but using this as a standpoint, to reconsider the practice and the pedagogical ideas, which do not meet the needs of today's students. This text expresses the ideas of many voices, and it is a story created by many hands.