ESCOLA DE TEMPO INTEGRAL: OS SENTIDOS E SIGNIFICADOS ATRIBUÍDOS PELA CRIANÇA.

Abstract

This dissertation presents the results of a research that aims to understand the meanings that children, subject of this research, attach to Full Time School. The method that guided this research was dialectic historical materialism and the methodology used was qualitative approach. The empirical research was carried out aided by differents instruments that enabled build zones on this sense of reality, like: observation, document analysis and conversations circles with children. To hold the conversation circles students photographed and drew their families, spaces, environments and they school activities. To build our analysis on this complex reality, at first discussed the historical construction of the concept of childhood. In this work, we take the concept of childhood as a construct historical and social, since the ways in which it is experienced, throughout history, in different societies were mediated by the economic, social and political with determined ways by people who organize themselves in production of their survival. From there, we reflect about the concept the increase of daily school hours education and Full Time School. Therefore, we analyzed the school education in the beginning of XX century and the main experiences on Full Time School in Brazil and recent experience on State Schools in Goiás. For us Full Time School does not imply that it has comprehensive education. We support the concept of full time education as the formation of the human being in all their aspects, is not characterized by the formation in compliance with the minimum needs of the individual. With this theoretical foundations, we analyze the significance and meanings attributed by children to Full Time School, obtained in field research done in a Full Time School at the State of Goiás, in the city of Ceres. For this analysis, we chose the categories: the task, the court and lunch, supporting us in the speeches, photographs and drawings made by the children. The final considerations presented in this study aim to contribute to the discussion about the direction the Full Time School has for the child, we do not intend, however, exhaust the discussions that permeate this topic.