Educação bilíngue para que e para quem? o que motiva os pais que escolhem uma escola bilíngue

• Autor(a) principal: Speakes, Kristina Michelle Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20412
• topic: Educação bilíngue; Rede privada de ensino; Capital social; Bilingual education; Private schools; Social capital; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO::TOPICOS ESPECIFICOS DE EDUCACAO

This work brings forth a debate from the perspective of the social sciences on the relationship between the themes used by families about the supply of and demand for bilingual education, in this case English-Portuguese bilingual education, at a private school in the eastern ward of the city of São Paulo. The research was guided by the hypothesis that families seek to provide their children with the opportunity to master the English language so that it can later be transformed into economic capital, prompted by a real or perceived need to use the language in a globalized world. It was also believed that families seek social ascent or class maintenance through an interiorization of an “objectively determined object” which is represented by their children’s education. The study sought to understand if, in fact, the supply of and search for bilingual education actually represents a main, additional or superfluous criteria when choosing a school. The research used a relational approach, using a literature review of the basic principles and understandings of bilingual education in Brazil and the sphere of research surrounding globalization as a fashionable buzz word and also as sociological concept. These two wide-ranging subjects were funneled into an empirical discussion on the placement of the families and the school in the eastern ward of the city and, finally, were narrowed even further until reaching the desires and motivations of the families involved in the study. Data was collected using a quantitative, structured questionnaire, applied using an on-line platform, and qualitative, semi-structured interviews carried out with five mothers from the school. Analysis was carried out by observing general data provided by the questionnaire in comparison with data from the 2010 Demographic Census and other data provided by Zichelle (2010) about the city and the eastern ward. In addition, respondents were grouped according to level of education and occupation for later comparison with other elements from the questionnaire. The interviews provided qualitative information to support and clarify subjective aspects of the parents’ choices. The research confirmed that even though the school provided other attractive features, one of the principle motives parents had for choosing the school was the fact that the school offered bilingual education. It was possible to demonstrate that the families view English as a necessity for the future of their children, and linked with education as a whole, make up the essential elements for the realization of the parents’ own dreams for social ascent and sometimes class maintenance. The work of Bauman (1999), Blommaert (2010), and Burbules and Torres (2004) influenced the understanding of globalization from a variety of perspectives and the work of Bourdieu (2000, 2004, 2011) sustained the discussion of social space, class fraction, economic, social and cultural capital