RELAÇÃO PROFESSOR-ALUNO: SUBJETIVIDADE E OBJETIVIDADE NA SALA DE AULA

Abstract

This work aims to understand the objective and subjective mechanisms used by teachers and students in their relationship in the classroom. It was based on the theory of the transfer concept, which allows us to understand the relationship teacher-student aside from the immediate and apparent manifestation. It considers that the school, specifically the classroom, is not only a place for acquiring systematized knowledge, but also a place for developing student and teacher’s identities, values, affection, rationality and subjectivity. Two secondgrade classrooms, from two upper class private schools were observed. They are both located in Goiânia – Brazil. In a first moment, both two classrooms are presented, and their similarities and methodological differences are outlined. The transfer concept is then discussed as a necessary theoretical foundation for understanding the teacher-student's relationship. Soon afterwards, we present the seduction game experienced in result of the subjective needs and demands of both the teacher and the students. The seduction comes to place through the teacher’s approval to those students that correspond to the ideal drawn by her and through the students’ adaptation to this ideal. In a third moment, this work analyzes the use of power from both parties; by the teacher, to disapprove the students' inadequate conducts; and by the students, through their indiscipline, reflecting their refusal to abide by the idealized model. The disciplinary actions taken by the teacher aim to control the students and show them a set of norms and rules that needs to be followed, as an attempt to moralize. The last aspect analyzed in this work is the competition established among the students, competing to affirm the difference existent among them, and also between them and the teacher. As a conclusion, this work observes that subjective and unconscious motivations are part of the relationship between teacher-student and affect student’s subjective formation.