Pedagogical help for students which have difficulties in learning now occupies more important place in worldwide. Despite of numerous scientific researches and practical discussions associated with referred topic, this problem occurs. Therefore, not the phenomenon of failure should be analyzed, but prevention of it. The subject of thesis is organization of educational process in the aspect of educational failure.

This thesis forwards the concept of “diasporic epistemology” in order to better understand how Filipino Canadian young males make sense of their educational success and failure. Diasporic epistemology means a dual frame of reference created by the intersection of both structural and cultural conditions specific to a particular diaspora. To investigate this concept, I examined the interview transcripts of six Filipino Canadian young men using the constructivist approach to grounded theory. My research reveals that school structure and Filipino consciousness play a significant role in educational success and failure. Situating my thesis within the academic fields of epistemology, intersectionality, and student achievement, I contend that understanding the diasporic epistemology of racialized minority and immigrant students challenges certain truism in educational research, such as current belief that family’s socio-economic status and parental education are predictors of students’ academic success. The implications for education are greater teacher-student-home relationships and alternative schooling methods

This thesis forwards the concept of “diasporic epistemology” in order to better understand how Filipino Canadian young males make sense of their educational success and failure. Diasporic epistemology means a dual frame of reference created by the intersection of both structural and cultural conditions specific to a particular diaspora. To investigate this concept, I examined the interview transcripts of six Filipino Canadian young men using the constructivist approach to grounded theory. My research reveals that school structure and Filipino consciousness play a significant role in educational success and failure. Situating my thesis within the academic fields of epistemology, intersectionality, and student achievement, I contend that understanding the diasporic epistemology of racialized minority and immigrant students challenges certain truism in educational research, such as current belief that family’s socio-economic status and parental education are predictors of students’ academic success. The implications for education are greater teacher-student-home relationships and alternative schooling methods

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:57:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rejane Maria de Almeida Trisotto.pdf: 1942014 bytes, checksum: 38321294fefed4ff5d3d04350a7a7a51 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-06-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research aims to apprehend the senses and meanings of a public school teacher concerning the educational success, understood from the relationship between success and its reverse, the failure. Hence, socio-historical psychology was the theoretical and methodological reference of this work. The studies of Vygotski (1998, 2001, 2002) about the meaning and sense categories were of great importance throughout the researching process. Along with this author, the contributions of Aguiar (1997, 2002, 2005), Ozella (2005), Heller (2000), Bock (2005), Rey Gonzalez (2002, 2003, 2005) and Charlot (2005) served as a major reference for the analysis of the addressed subject. From a qualitative point of view, this study had a public school teacher as a research collaborator with over 25 years of experience in teaching literacy, in which the senses were analyzed according to the meaning core methodology (Aguiar and Ozella, 2005). Inspired by this methodology, interviews mostly with the teacher, and some instruments, such as complementing sentence technique, choice of engraving, writing report of life path, word box and text ideas confrontation were used as procedures for collecting information . In the data analysis, nine meaning cores emerged and ensured access to the senses and meanings of the teacher concerning the educational success. Among the considerations that led this research, it is highlighted four aspects, understood as fundamentals and because they reflect the senses and meanings that the teacher assigns to the educational success / failure. These aspects are: 1) educational success is a condition that results from the student's family life, 2) the student in an educational success condition is docile, obedient and rule follower, 3) the successful student does not need a teacher, 4) success is an effort result. Our senses and meanings are not even known by us or easily accessed mainly because they are complex structures that exist within a historic-cultural movement that incorporates multiple determinations. By knowing teacher senses, we can meet their constitutive mediations and also the process by which was meant their educational success and failure understanding in their school trajectory and thus, produce a potentially important knowledge for all those who want to know better the teacher, contribute to their training qualification / Esta pesquisa tem o objetivo de apreender os sentidos e significados de uma professora de escola pública sobre o sucesso escolar, compreendido a partir da relação entre sucesso e o seu reverso, o fracasso. Para tanto, a psicologia sócio-histórica constituiu o referencial teórico e metodológico deste trabalho. Os estudos de Vygotski (1998, 2001, 2002) sobre as categorias sentido e significado foram de grande relevância em todo o processo da pesquisa. Juntamente com este autor, as contribuições de Aguiar (1997, 2002, 2005), Ozella (2006), Heller (2000), Bock (2005), Gonzáles Rey (2002, 2003, 2005) e Charlot (2005) serviram de importante referência para a análise do tema abordado. Nosso estudo, de cunho qualitativo, teve como colaboradora da pesquisa uma professora de escola pública com mais de 25 anos de experiência no magistério com classes de alfabetização, sobre a qual os sentidos foram analisados de acordo com a metodologia dos núcleos de significação (Aguiar e Ozella, 2006). Inspirados nessa metodologia foram usados como procedimentos de coleta de informações, prioritariamente as entrevistas com a professora, além de alguns instrumentos como técnica de complementar frases, escolha de gravura, relato escrito da trajetória de vida, caixa de palavras e confronto de idéias a partir de texto. No processo de análise das informações nove núcleos de significação emergiram e possibilitaram o acesso aos sentidos e significados da professora sobre o sucesso escolar. Dentre as considerações que esta pesquisa permitiu, destacamos quatro aspectos, por compreendermos como fundamentais e por refletirem os sentidos e significados que a professora atribui ao sucesso/fracasso escolar. São eles: 1) o sucesso escolar é uma condição que resulta da vida familiar do aluno; 2) o aluno em situação de sucesso escolar é dócil, obediente, segue regras; 3) o aluno com sucesso não precisa da professora; 4) sucesso é resultado do esforço. Nossos sentidos e significados nem sempre são conhecidos por nós ou facilmente acessados, em geral são construções complexas que existem dentro de um movimento histórico-cultural que integra múltiplas determinações. Conhecendo os sentidos do professor podemos conhecer as mediações que lhe são constitutivas e bem como o processo pelo qual foi significada sua compreensão de sucesso e fracasso escolar na sua trajetória educacional e, assim, produzir um conhecimento potencialmente importante para todos aqueles que pretendem, conhecendo melhor o professor, contribuir para a qualificação da sua formação