Representações sociais de professores sobre a autoridade docente

• Autor(a) principal: Hoffmann, Juliana Najados
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• 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/20924
• topic: Autoridade; Representações sociais; Prática de ensino; Professores e alunos; Authority; Social representations; Student teaching; Teacher-student relationships; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA DO ENSINO E DA APRENDIZAGEM

In this paper, we discuss the authority of the teacher and its practice in the classroom, important elements at the present, since both society and the expectations regarding this discussion have changed. In a psychosocial perspective, the historical and social context of the individual integrates and conditions the opinion and conception formation, impacting on the way one apprehends the world. Considering that authoritarianism has accompanied the democratic development of Brazil, our study intends mainly to understand the social representations of primary school teachers about the teaching authority through the social and historical perspective of the constitution of this concept. For that, we use the Theory of Social Representations, first formulated by Serge Moscovici, in 1961, as theoretical support. In this research, we interviewed thirty elementary school teachers from two municipal schools in the underprivileged suburban areas of the city of São Paulo; and we developed an instrument with the Word-Free Association Test (Teste de Associação Livre de Palavras) and open questions regarding the issue of teaching authority. We used three types of analysis procedures: the prototypical analysis, the similitude analysis, and the word cloud, all of which involved the IRAMUTEQ software, aiming to identify the possible peripheral and core elements of representations. The analysis allowed us to understand that the word respect is the concept that most represents the teaching authority for these teachers, since it has strong affective connotations, as well as a strong connection with the words power, order, leadership and fear. It is possible that these teachers have never experienced any kind of authority other than associated with power, fear, and order, which leads to an opposite direction than that of the democratic authority. Therefore, our research indicates that overcoming this gap involves new experiences, new forms of acquaintance, new ways of seeing relationships so that other representations about authority are constructed: it is not possible to demand change without dialogues about more democratic processes for authority