Cultura escolar e habitus professoral em uma instituição de educação profissional agrícola

Abstract

This doctoral thesis is connected to the research line "Education, Society and Culture", developed in the PHd. Education Program at PUC Goiás. In recent years, the discussion about the teaching knowledge occupied considerable space in the discussion on school education practice, resulting in the creation of various types of knowledge and the materialization of efforts to build a guided epistemology to recognize the complex nature of the teaching activity. The investigation started from the teachers relationship with their work, as well as the ways of being and acting of this profession, at the Technical Course in Agriculture Integrated to High School, in a school whose culture is guided by the shape of an agricultural education. The theory focuses mainly on Pierre Bourdieu´s sociological concepts. The analyses are based on his concept of habitus. This habitus consists of the life styles, manners and tastes incorporated in the life history of teachers, their psychic dispositions. And all these related to the process of teaching. Thus, the analyses take in the methodologies and assimilated attitudes in the teaching experience, initially experienced as students and then as teachers and knowledge professionals of the field, and other experiences in different formative spaces or different instances of socialization. In specific, the thesis was based on existing production in the institutional field, based on the Culture Theory, whose foundations were sought in Williams, Cevasco, and contributions from other studies about the teaching culture, based in the concepts of teaching culture - discussed by Viñao Frago, Dominique Julia, Jean-Claude Forquin, and Pérez Gómez and teaching skills, developed by Tardif, Nóvoa and Perrenoud (1993, 2001, 2002). It dialogues, also, with the literature in the area of Labor and Education, about the purposes and goals of professional education. This is mostly a qualitative research that, in terms of methodology, involves the identification and the study of bibliographical sources; data collection through documental analysis; the use of questionnaires; semistructured interviews with selected teachers, according to the research criteria; also the systematic observation of teachers´ everyday life in the school facility. Data related to student and family trajectories were collected in addition to teaching practices on professional education. It was identified a teacher habitus in the teaching practices and in the professional education. There is a construction through the history of this teacher and it is inscribed on profession rituals, memories of primary socialization and different conceptions about teaching, diluted in the formation courses of professional education teachers. And all these make the professional teaching culture unique. This study represents the achievement of new insights and, in a broader perspective, it appears as an important contribution in the range of academic productions on this theme because it is relevant and still underexplored.