Abstract

ZIBAS, Dagmar M. L.; FERRETTI, Celso J.  and  TARTUCE, Gisela Lobo B. P.. THE PROTAGONISM OF STUDENTS AND PARENTS IN BRAZILIAN HIGH SCHOOLS. Rev. Port. de Educação [online]. 2005, vol.18, n.2, pp.45-87. ISSN 0871-9187.

The text refers to a research developed in five Brazilian schools. The focus was on a particular aspect of the high schools reform: the protagonism of students and parents in the school´s practices. The option for the the protagonism as a research theme is due to its presence, either in the curricular aspect of the reform as well as in the management one. It is a multifaceted object of concern, full of political and pedagogical meanings, which makes of it a potential catalyzer of conflicts, simulations, omissions and, at the same time, a potential stimulator of rich democratic unfoldings. The qualitative nature of the research opened many perspectives for the study of the school´s micropolitic as well as of the appropriation of innovation processes in such context. The articulation of the specific aspects of the school practices and the historical context was made by the use of the category of "sustainability". The final analysis of data points to various contradictions in the process of construction and implementation of the reform and to the reaction of the schools to the government directives.

Keywords : Students’ protagonism; Parents’ protagonism; Middle school reform.

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