Linguagem dos jovens, cultura escolar e gestão democrática: um estudo sobre a diversidade

Abstract

This monographic work, qualitative in nature, aims to question the possibilities, the contradictions and the benefits of young participation in school management, in terms of diversity of the language of the students and the necessity to have it as a basis for young education in a proposal of democratic management. The research questions: how the linguistic diversity is treated in the basic school? The inquiry was developed in a school of the State System of Education from Rio Grande do Sul (Professor Edna May Cardoso School) situated in Santa Maria City, and had as interviewed characters four learners (one girl and three boys) and as cited characters two teachers of the second stage of the elementary school and high school during the years of 2006 and 2007. The methodology used was of participant research, with comments in the lessons and in the pedagogical meetings and with semi-structured interviews and press conferences applied to learners, analyzed on the basis of theoretical reference of the fields of sociological and linguistic knowledge. The analysis is built on confrontation among the current proposals of democratic management in School’s Political Pedagogical Project and the current legislation on education, and the point of view of learners about the uses of language in the school. It was observed in the research that there is a preconception in relation to the language of the student whom does not feel at ease in front of his/her classmates and teachers to participate in school activities. It is proven that the team of teachers of the management school in the basic school is not prepared to deal with equity the linguistic diversity.