Schools organized in cycles: the social representations considered successful by teachers

• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Laeda Bezerra
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Santos, Jaqueline Andrea Lira Cordeiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng; spa
• Título da fonte: Ensaio (Rio de Janeiro. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.cesgranrio.org.br/index.php/ensaio/article/view/766
• topic: Social representations; Successful practices; Learning cycles; Representaciones sociales; Practicas exitosas; Aprender ciclos; Representacoes sociais; Praticas de sucesso; Ciclos de aprendizagem

The article identifies the social representations of teachers learning cycles considered successful. The reference was the Theory of Social Representations in the original strand of S. Moscovici. The research was conducted with 20 teachers of the Municipal Recife. The professionals were interviewed in depth. The reports were processed by the software Alceste. The corpus was organized into four classes called: knowledge related to the proposed cycles; challenges and shortcomings of the proposal; factors that promote school success and cycles in everyday practice. Overall, the classes reveal that teachers know the system cycles highlighting the limits and difficulties that interfere with its effectiveness. The results left glimpse that successful teachers, due to the commitment and responsibility with regard to teaching, have positive social representations about the school transformative potential, regardless of their organizational processes and are these representations to guide their practices in school organized cycles.