Este trabalho apresenta os resultados da pesquisa que teve por objetivo analisar a percepção que as professoras têm de alunos e alunas encaminhados à recuperação paralela. O objetivo da pesquisa foi verificar se os motivos pelos quais meninos e meninas são encaminhados/as à recuperação paralela são semelhantes, ou se diferem de acordo com o sexo do/a estudante. A pesquisa baseou-se nos estudos sobre as relações de gênero e educação e em estudos sobre o fracasso e o sucesso escolar. As hipóteses iniciais eram de que os meninos seriam encaminhados por motivos não necessariamente ligados à sua real dificuldade de aprendizagem, seja por conta de indisciplina, seja por uma suposta culpabilização da família que não ajudaria o aluno nas tarefas escolares em casa, por exemplo. Já as meninas seriam encaminhadas por conta de dificuldades de aprendizagem geradas por timidez, apatia, deficiência mental, etc., ou seja, o motivo de encaminhamento das alunas seria por uma dificuldade intrínseca à menina, não havendo muita esperança de que a recuperação paralela contribuísse para que ela avançasse, já que sua dificuldade estaria atrelada a fatores psicointelectuais. A pesquisa de campo centrou-se em uma escola do Município do Embu que possuía um projeto de recuperação para alunos com dificuldades em leitura e escrita: o Projeto Letras e Livros e contou com observações e entrevistas semi-estruturadas com as professoras regentes de classe (que encaminham as crianças) e as professoras atuantes no Projeto Letras e Livros, além de observações das reuniões de conselho de classe ao longo do ano letivo de 2006. Tanto o Projeto analisado quanto a escola que serviu como campo para a pesquisa foram escolhidos devido à boa estrutura e organização e aos bons resultados que vinham mostrando nos anos de 2002 a 2006. Os resultados apontaram para a confirmação de que, independentemente de um trabalho articulado e reflexivo por parte das professoras, ainda se culpabiliza a família e a pobreza de algumas crianças, numa maioria de meninos, pela sua dificuldade de aprendizagem. Porém, esta questão não se apresentou tão forte quanto a literatura acadêmica vem mostrando. Na escola pesquisada, os aspectos referentes à não adequação da criança a um ofício de aluno valorizado pelas professoras - este ofício de aluno é tomado aqui como um modelo da maneira como o aluno ou a aluna deve se comportar, agir e ser dentro das dinâmicas escolares, ou seja, o não ajuste de algumas crianças ao que é esperado delas no momento de se organizar, se concentrar na aula, se comportar diante dos colegas e da professora, etc., - pode fazer com que a criança seja percebida como um/a aluno/a com dificuldade de aprendizagem. Algumas dificuldades citadas pelas professoras, entretanto, são percebidas mais em meninos e outras em meninas, evidenciando que as construções sociais sobre o masculino e o feminino contam muito ao avaliar quem precisa ou não de apoio extra na aprendizagem escolar. / This study presents the results of a research aimed at analyzing how teachers perceive male and female students who were referred to parallel studies. It intended to verify if the reasons why students are sent to those activities differ or not between male and female students. The research was based on gender and educational studies as well as studies on school failure and success. The first hypothesis was that boys were referred to parallel studies not necessarily because of their learning difficulties, but mostly as a result of indiscipline or due to a blaming the family discourse, which claims the child has difficulties because the family does not help him with the schoolwork. On the other hand, girls learning difficulties seemed to result from shyness, apathy or mental illness, that is, the reasons why teachers referred girls to parallel studies were mostly based on inner difficulties. Thus, as their difficulties were connected to psycho-intellectual issues, there was almost no hope those activities could facilitate their learning process. The field work was developed at a municipal school in Embu. The chosen school had a parallel study project to students with reading and writing difficulties: Projeto Letras e Livros (Letters and Books Project). The research was carried out with both classroom teachers (who would refer students to the project) as well as with the teachers of the project. The professionals were interviewed and observed during school council meetings throughout the year 2006. Both project and school were chosen because of efficient organization and positive results they showed between the years 2002 and 2006. The results of this research points out that even when there is a reflexive and articulated work among teachers at a school, it is still possible to hear them blaming family and poverty as the ones responsible for learning difficulties, especially for boys. However, those aspects were not as relevant to the teachers of the investigated school as they usually are in the academic literature. For those teachers, most important was the adequate performance of an approved role of the student. Here, this role consists of the way girls and boys must behave, act and be at school. The inadequate performance of this role students not meeting the expected attitude when they are asked to organize themselves, to concentrate or to behave with their teachers and classmates may lead teachers to perceive students as having learning difficulties. Moreover, some difficulties mentioned by the teachers were most perceived among boys whereas others were particularly mentioned about girls. This difference is evidence that the social construction of male and female greatly support the evaluation process of those who need or not parallel studies.

O processo de aquisição da leitura e escrita não é uma tarefa fácil quando se tratam de crianças que apresentam dificuldades de aprendizagem. Nestes casos, é comum a busca pelo auxílio quando elas já apresentam bloqueios relacionados às atividades escolares. Os softwares educativos que apresentam os mesmos métodos utilizados na escola, ou são cópias digitalizadas de cartilhas, são identificados facilmente gerando novas frustrações nas crianças. Neste trabalho foi concebido um ambiente que apresenta os conceitos pedagógicos baseados na teoria sócio-contrutivista, de forma lúdica. Foi desenvolvido um jogo com interface tridimensional e cenário ambientado em uma cidade com simulações de atividades do cotidiano da maioria das crianças. Para modelar os objetos e personagens do jogo foi utilizada a ferramenta Blender utilizando como referências fotos e imagens geradas com a ferramenta GIMP. As animações dos personagens foram desenvolvidas com as técnicas de cinemática que representam bem os ciclos de caminhada e de corrida, tornando a animação mais realística. Os programas para a game engine foram implementados com o interpretador Python que permite controlar os objetos e a lógica do jogo. Essas técnicas proporcionam uma interface gráfica tridimensional sofisticada e atraente. O jogo foi desenvolvido considerando características que o tornam lúdico para as crianças, como a implementação de fantasia controlada, desafios e propriedades que estimulam a curiosidade. Os conceitos pedagógicos utilizados no jogo foram avaliados por pedagogos e psicólogos que consideraram sua aplicação adequada e significativa. A ludicidade do jogo foi testada com 37 crianças analisando seus comportamentos frente as características implementadas para tornar o jogo atrativo. A vontade de todas elas de permanecerem jogando mais de que o tempo estipulado e não se deixarem distrair por outras brincadeiras, mostrou o acerto do meio escolhido para este trabalho. Em nenhum momento as crianças consideraram as atividades como tarefas escolares. O conteúdo educativo permaneceu transparente aos jogadores que enxergaram apenas uma atividade lúdica, podendo desse modo, facilitar a aprendizagem das crianças desmotivadas pelos métodos tradicionais. / The acquisition process of both reading and writing is not an easy task when it is undertaken by children with learning difficulties. In such cases, search for help is common when those children have already experienced some trauma associated with school activities. Educational softwares that are based on such activities tend to be digital copies of textbooks that are easily recognizable and which keeps bringing about the same frustrations for children with learning difficulties. This paper aims at showing a ludic environment that we developed and in which some pedagogical concepts were drawn on the social constructivist theory. We came up with a game with 3D interface and a scenery game adapted in a city containing simulations of daily activities that are familiar for the majority of children. In order to create the model of the objects and characters for the game we used Blender, and the photos and the images were created with Gimp tool. The characters\' animations were developed by using direct kinematics and inverse kinematics, which represent the walk cycles and run cycles as well as enable the generation of most of realistic animation. The algorithms for the game engine were implemented with Python, that allows for controlling both the objects and the game logic. These techniques provide 3D sophisticated graphics and an attractive interface. The game was developed by using characteristics that turns out to be playful for children, such as the implementation of controlled fantasy, challenges and properties that stimulate curiosity. The pedagogical concepts employed in the game were evaluated by pedagogues and psychologists who considered it adequate, significant and useful. The ludic characteristic in the game was experimented with 37 children in order to analyze their behavior towards the features that had been implemented to achieve an attractive game. All of them wished to keep playing the game more than the allotted time, and they did not get distracted from it, neither did they consider these activities as school tasks. The educational content remained transparent for the players: as soon as they could see a playful activity they started following the procedures, which has proved to be useful to facilitate learning for the children unmotivated by traditional learning methods.

This research examined the stories of three teachers with learning disabilities at the inception of their teaching careers. The research explored the composition of the teacher's professional knowledge, described in the literature as consisting of academic knowledge and personal knowledge. Would the teacher with learning disabilities express her painful childhood school memories in her presentday professional deliberations, as is indicated in the literature relating to case descriptions and research studies? The research question was: what does the 'personal self' of the teacher with learning disabilities at the inception of her career contribute to her 'professional self'? Assisted by the narrative approach that sees a person as creating stories that structure and express his identity, the teachers' stories were collected, recorded and later analysed by interpretative analysis which related to the story's structure and contents. Research data were collected from three sources: the autobiographical story of the teacher presenting personal memories and interpretation for past life events, which illustrate the teacher's interpersonal self and the intrapersonal self. The teacher's reflective feedback regarding her lessons, presented the teacher's interpretations of her professional considerations and a description of an educational event from her work revealed her educativevalue world. All these demonstrated her professional knowledge. The research findings show that coherence exists between the personal story and the professional story and the organising positioning in each of the teacher's stories was identified. It was found that the professional considerations of the teacher, including didactic knowledge, pedagogic knowledge, use of reasoned rules and reading the class map, acted on a background of knowledge that was gathered from the 'personal self' and this enriched the teacher's 'professional self' at the inception of her career.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T20:03:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta dissertação tem como propósito a problematização do enunciado “Aprender matemática é difícil”. Busca-se analisá-lo, discutindo as condições de possibilidade de sua emergência e seus efeitos de verdade por meio da questão de pesquisa: Como o enunciado “Aprender matemática é difícil” vai se instituindo como uma verdade no currículo escolar? O material de pesquisa constitui-se de um conjunto de discussões produzidas por um grupo de treze alunos do 2º ano do Ensino Médio de uma escola pública localizada na cidade de Canoas/RS. A parte empírica da pesquisa foi realizada com o uso da metodologia de Grupo de Discussão em seis encontros, onde foram examinadas questões relacionadas à matemática. Nesses encontros, as discussões dos alunos foram gravadas e posteriormente transcritas. Além das discussões, foi utilizado um diário de campo. A produção do material de pesquisa, assim como sua análise foram feitas tendo como suporte elementos da teorização de Michel Foucault e o campo da Etnomatemática, em seus entrecruz / This study has as purpose to problematize the statement “To learn mathematics is difficult”. It is analyzed by examining the conditions of possibility of its emergency and its effects of truth, guided by the following research question: How the statement “To learn mathematics is difficult” is establishing itself as a truth in the school curriculum? The research data is composed by a set of discussions produced by a group of thirteen students of the 2nd year of the Ensino Médio of a public school located in Canoas city, RS. The empirical part of the research was accomplished with the use of the Group of Discussion methodology, applied in six meeting in which issues related to mathematics were examined. In these meetings, the students’ discussions were recorded and later they were transcribed. Besides these discussions, it was done a field diary. The production of the research data as well as its analysis was made having as support elements of Michel Foucault’s theory and the field of Ethnomathematics in their

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosemary Jimenez Ventura dos Santos.pdf: 655966 bytes, checksum: ba1e8f17ca2c934e2383fd2ec982eb76 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work arose from the question Who is this subject that does not learn? And inspired by Lacan s researches about the logical time, it was organized and shared into three parts. The fisrt part, Instant look, deals with the questions related to learn and not learn. Beginning at the multiplicity of positions which involve this question we investigated the historical roots of the called learning problems and the contributions of the medicinal knowledge to the educational field demonstrated through diagnostics from DSM Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for mental Disorders. It was necessary to consider the education inside our present society as well as to do researches about its history in order to understand who would be these children that do not learn. This research has the purpose to study through the Psychoanalysis, its concepts and propositions, this contemporary subject whose symptom appears into this specific form: not learning. In the second part, Time to Understand, we studied the subject and their constitution to the Freud s and Lacan s Psychoanalysis, focusing in the study of the symptom too. We began at showing its origin, the place it was and is granted into the medicine and psychoanalysis and its articulations to the subject s constitution. Finally, Moment to Conclude, when we discuss the subject s specificity who does not learn through the singularity of the symptom not learning , the sense and beyond the sense, we defend the idea that the psychoanalysis brings, in critical terms, one important criticism of the diagnostic practice exercised by the medicine and psychology about the learning problems and in propositional terms, we defend the importance and the relevance of considering the subject, who does not learn, beyond the strictly observable phenomenon and beyond a reeducation therapeutics practice, enabling them a heard / Este trabalho partiu da questão quem é esse sujeito que não aprende? e inspirado nas modulações propostas por Lacan sobre o tempo lógico, foi organizado em três partes. A primeira parte, Instante de Olhar, trata das questões relacionadas ao aprender e ao não aprender. Partindo da multiplicidade de posições que acercam essa questão, investigou-se as raízes históricas dos chamados problemas de aprendizagem e a presença do saber médico no âmbito educacional manifestada através de diagnósticos referendados a partir do DSM Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for mental Disordes. Necessário se fez, considerar a educação no contexto da sociedade atual, bem como recorrer à história da educação para compreender quem seriam essas crianças que não aprendem. Trata-se nesta pesquisa de estudar por meio da Psicanálise, seus conceitos e proposições, esse sujeito da contemporaneidade cujo sintoma se manifesta nessa forma específica: não aprender. Na parte II, Tempo para Compreender, estudamos o sujeito e sua constituição para a Psicanálise de Freud e Lacan, nos debruçando também ao estudo do sintoma, iniciado pela caracterização de sua origem, o lugar que lhe foi e é outorgado na medicina e na psicanálise e suas articulações na constituição do sujeito. Finalmente, Momento de Concluir, ao discutirmos a especificidade do sujeito que não aprende, pela singularidade do sintoma não aprender , o sentido e o além do sentido, defendemos a ideia de que a Psicanálise fornece, em termos críticos, uma importante crítica da prática diagnóstica exercida pela medicina e psicologia quanto aos problemas de aprendizagem e em termos propositivos, defendemos a importância e a relevância de se tomar o sujeito que não aprende para além do fenômeno estritamente observável e para além de uma prática terapêutica reeducativa, possibilitando-lhe uma escuta

This study focuses on developing teaching strategies for teachers who teach in classes for students identified as Gifted and Talented with Special Learning Disabilities situated in Israeli secondary schools. The focus is on the challenges teachers meet while teaching Humanities Subjects (HS) to these students and the strategies they need in addressing their dual exceptionalities. The main purpose of this study is to examine how specific strategies may contribute towards both to quality of teaching and to a better learning environment. Research has shown that gifted students who are diagnosed with learning disabilities in writing skills (2ELs) have difficulties especially in HS and achieve less academically than may suggest their high abilities. The combination of giftedness with learning disabilities and underachievement creates special challenges for their teachers to counter, and for which they need specific Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes. In my study, I developed a model of teaching strategies which combines three strategies from the field of teaching gifted students and from the field of special education which are helpful in the humanities disciplines. I created a manual for teachers' CPD that includes this model and I conducted a seminar using this manual for the participant teachers in my research. This was followed by an implementation of the manual by these teachers in their classrooms that includes 2ELs. My qualitative research was based on the case studies of two teachers teaching HS in two high school classrooms, totalling sixty 2ELs. The information was collected through observations, interviews, and open questionnaires. I then analysed the information using an inductive approach as pattern recognition and inclusion into categories. The research findings of this study describe the difficulties that teachers may face with 2ELs and my claim to knowledge is the AAA Model of Strategies and the manual for teachers and their contribution to teachers of 2Els and their students. The recent research fills this particular gap in the literature, in the Israeli context, and the findings of this study bear policy implications and indicate the need for the tailoring of relevant teachers’ CPD' programmes to include strategies to better address the needs of 2ELs for optimal success in fulfilling their potential and overcoming their difficulties. Future research may achieve a deeper understanding of how to prepare teachers to use adjusted strategies that meet 2Els teachers in various disciplines in order to improve learning environment.

Esta pesquisa situa-se no campo dos processos cognitivos subjacentes à aprendizagem da matemática. Procurou-se avaliar a relação entre o raciocínio quantitativo e a memória de trabalho na aprendizagem da matemática em 30 alunos da 4ª série do Ensino Fundamental, com idades entre 9 e 10 anos em duas escolas públicas de Porto Alegre. Os participantes foram divididos igualmente em dois grupos, um com alto desempenho em matemática e outro com baixo desempenho em matemática. Avaliamos os processos cognitivos dos grupos através de tarefas que envolveram: desempenho matemático (DM), memória de trabalho (MT), memória de curto prazo (MCP), habilidades numéricas (HN) e raciocínio quantitativo (RQ). Os resultados foram analisados quanti-qualitativamente. Para verificar as correlações entre as funções avaliadas, foi utilizado o teste não paramétrico de Spearman. O grupo de alunos com alto desempenho em matemática apresentou melhores resultados em todas as funções avaliadas nessa pesquisa. Tal resultado sugere que todas essas habilidades desempenham um papel essencial na aprendizagem da matemática. Além disso, foram utilizadas medidas estatísticas para verificar a significância das diferenças entre os grupos. Os resultados apontam que houve diferença estatisticamente significativa entre os grupos quanto às funções avaliadas, exceto a MT. Destacamos o fato de que, o RQ foi a única função a correlacionar-se de forma estatisticamente significativa com todas as demais. A correlação entre RQ e MT foi estatisticamente significativa (p ≤ 0,05) ressaltando que os recursos da MT são importantes para o RQ, uma vez que evitam sobrecarga e garantem fluidez no raciocínio. Os resultados do estudo oferecem uma importante implicação educacional: a necessidade de incluir-se, ao longo do Ensino Fundamental, tarefas escolares que tenham em vista competências conceituais e procedurais, como tarefas desafiadoras em que os alunos devam manter a atenção, raciocinar quantitativamente demonstrando flexibilidade e adaptação na utilização de aprendizagens anteriores. / This research stands on the underlying cognitive processes and Math learning field. It intended to evaluate the relation between quantitative reasoning and working memory on the math learning with 30 elementary school fourth-grade students, with ages varying from 9 to 10 years in two Porto Alegre public schools. Participants were divided equally into two groups, one with high performance in mathematics, and other with low performance in mathematics. We evaluated the groups cognitive processes through tasks which involved: mathematical achievement (MA), working memory (WM), short-term memory (STM), numeracy skills (NS), and quantitative reasoning (RQ). Results were analyzed quantiqualitatively. The Spearman non-parametric test was used in order to verify the correlations among the evaluated functions. In this research, the students group with good performance in Mathematics presented better results in all evaluated functions. This result suggests that all these skills play an essential role on math learning. Statistical measures were used to verify the significance of the differences between the groups. Results indicate that there was statistically significant difference between the groups in relation to all evaluated function, except WM. We emphasize the fact that QR was the only function to be correlated in a statistically significant way with all the other functions. Correlation between QR and WM was statistically significant (p ≤ 0,05) highlighting the fact that the WM resources are important for QR, since they avoid overload and guarantee fluidity of reasoning. The study results offer an important educational implication: the need to include, along the elementary school, academic tasks that aim conceptual and procedural competencies, as challenging tasks in which the students must maintain attention, reason quantitatively, showing flexibility and adaptation in the use of early learnings.

nÃo hà / O presente estudo teve como objetivo avaliar as contribuiÃÃes do Programa de Apoio PedagÃgico do ColÃgio Militar de Fortaleza (CMF), implementado no ano de 2014, para a melhoria do aprendizado dos alunos com dificuldades de aprendizagem. Especificamente, buscou-se verificar numa populaÃÃo de 202 alunos do 6 e 7 anos, se houve melhorias significativas no aprendizado em LÃngua Portuguesa e MatemÃtica dos alunos com dificuldades de aprendizagem apÃs dois meses de intervenÃÃes do Programa. A verificaÃÃo da aprendizagem dos alunos foi realizada por meio da aplicaÃÃo de um prÃ-teste e um pÃs-teste em um grupo experimental (apoio pedagÃgico) e dois grupos de controle (nÃo concursados e concursados nÃo participantes do Programa) para cada ano escolar investigado. A diferenÃa entre o prÃ-teste e pÃs-teste dentro de cada grupo de pesquisa foi avaliada por meio do teste t pareado em cada ano escolar. As diferenÃas na melhoria do aprendizado entre os grupos de pesquisa foram avaliadas por meio do teste t para amostras independentes. O software utilizado para as anÃlises dos dados foi o SPSS 16.0 for Windows. Considerando que a aprendizagem està diretamente relacionada aos percentuais de alunos em recuperaÃÃo, recuperados e reprovados, buscou-se ainda verificar estes percentuais em 2014 e comparÃ-los à mÃdia dos cinco anos letivos anteriores. Os resultados demonstraram que o Apoio PedagÃgico contribuiu para a melhoria do aprendizado dos alunos do 6 ano participantes do Programa, tanto em LÃngua Portuguesa quanto em MatemÃtica, apÃs os dois primeiros meses de atividades. Jà no 7 ano, a melhora dos alunos do Apoio PedagÃgico sà foi significativa em MatemÃtica e apenas quando comparada ao grupo dos alunos concursados. A pesquisa revelou ainda que o Programa de Apoio PedagÃgico contribuiu para que, no 6 e 7 anos em 2014, os percentuais de alunos nas recuperaÃÃes bimestrais e final fossem menores, e que os percentuais de alunos recuperados fossem maiores, quando comparados à mÃdia desses percentuais nos Ãltimos cinco anos. O percentual de alunos nÃo concursados reprovados do 6 ano em 2014 foi praticamente o mesmo que a mÃdia desses percentuais nos Ãltimos cinco anos. Jà no 7 ano este percentual foi quase cinco vezes menor. Portanto, de maneira geral o Programa de Apoio PedagÃgico do CMF em 2014 foi bem-sucedido na melhoria do aprendizado dos alunos com dificuldades de aprendizagem. As experiÃncias vivenciadas nesta pesquisa confirmaram os achados da literatura de que as dificuldades de aprendizagem nÃo se restringem aos aspectos cognitivos, mas abrangem um amplo espectro de possibilidades fisiolÃgicas, psicolÃgicas, sociolÃgicas, pedagÃgicas, etc. que dificultam ou impedem o aluno de aprender. Tal constataÃÃo exige uma ampliaÃÃo do conceito de apoio pedagÃgico para alÃm das aulas de reforÃo. Apesar das melhorias obtidas, o Programa precisa de aperfeiÃoamentos para alcanÃar resultados ainda mais expressivos. AlÃm disso, um Programa de Apoio PedagÃgico sà estarà definitivamente consolidado quando houver uma polÃtica de apoio pedagÃgico que permeie todas as esferas do ensino, onde o olhar diferenciado sobre aqueles que mais precisam estiver presente em todos os agentes educacionais, em particular dos gestores e professores do turno regular. / The aim of this paper is to evaluate the contributions of the Pedagogical Support Program that was implemented in 2014 in the Brazilian Military School of Fortaleza (CMF) to improve learning outcomes in students with learning difficulties. More specifically, drawing on a population of 202 students in the 6th and 7th grades at CMF, we have tried to determine if there was a significant improvement in the understanding of Portuguese and Mathematics by students with learning difficulties after two months of the Programâs intervention. The verification of the learning by the students was carried out through the application of a pre-test and a post-test in an experimental group (pedagogical support) and two control groups students who automatically entered CMF without an admission exam due to military regulations and students who entered by means of an admission exam. Neither of the control groups was part of the Program. The difference between the pre-test and the post-test from each of the groups was evaluated by means of the t test paired in each school year. The differences in the improvement of the learning outcomes between the groups were evaluated by means of the t test for independent samples. The software used for the data analysis was the SPSS 16.0 for Windows. To determine the success or failure of the learning outcome, we have also made a comparison between 2014 and the five preceding years of the proportion of students that needed to take remedial classes because they did not obtain passing marks; students that successfully took these remedial classes and improved their marks so that they passed; and students that failed these classes and did not go onto the next grade. The results revealed that the Pedagogical Support Program contributed to the improvement of the learning outcome of the students from 6th grade that were a part of the Program, in both Portuguese and Mathematics after the two first months of activities. On the other hand, the improvement of the 7th grade students who were a part of the Pedagogical Support was only significant in Mathematics and only when compared to the group of the students who entered by means of the admission exam. The research has also revealed that in the 6th and 7th grades in 2014, the Pedagogical Support Program contributed to a lower percentage of students that needed to take remedial classes on a bimonthly basis or at the end of the year, and a higher percentage of students who were able to improve their marks, when compared to the average of these percentages over the previous five years. The percentage of students that entered without an entrance exam (due to military regulation) and who failed the 6th grade in 2014 was practically the same as the average of these percentages in the last five years. In contrast, in the 7th grade this percentage was almost five times lower. Therefore, in general, the Pedagogical Support Program at CMF in 2014 succeeded in improving the learning outcomes of the students with learning difficulties. The outcome of this survey confirmed the findings in literature that state that learning difficulties not only restrict themselves to the cognitive aspects, but that they also cover a wide spectrum of factors that are philosophical, psychological, sociological, pedagogical, etc. that make it harder for the student to learn and may even keep them from learning altogether. This requires an extension of the concept of pedagogical support beyond the remedial classes. Despite the improvement achieved by this Program, the Program needs to be improved so that it obtains even better outcomes. In addition, the Pedagogical Support Program will only be completely matured when there is a policy of pedagogical support that permeates every area of education and where a different perspective is taken by all involved in the educational process, in particular the teachers and administration.

Este trabalho apresenta os resultados da pesquisa que teve por objetivo analisar a percepção que as professoras têm de alunos e alunas encaminhados à recuperação paralela. O objetivo da pesquisa foi verificar se os motivos pelos quais meninos e meninas são encaminhados/as à recuperação paralela são semelhantes, ou se diferem de acordo com o sexo do/a estudante. A pesquisa baseou-se nos estudos sobre as relações de gênero e educação e em estudos sobre o fracasso e o sucesso escolar. As hipóteses iniciais eram de que os meninos seriam encaminhados por motivos não necessariamente ligados à sua real dificuldade de aprendizagem, seja por conta de indisciplina, seja por uma suposta culpabilização da família que não ajudaria o aluno nas tarefas escolares em casa, por exemplo. Já as meninas seriam encaminhadas por conta de dificuldades de aprendizagem geradas por timidez, apatia, deficiência mental, etc., ou seja, o motivo de encaminhamento das alunas seria por uma dificuldade intrínseca à menina, não havendo muita esperança de que a recuperação paralela contribuísse para que ela avançasse, já que sua dificuldade estaria atrelada a fatores psicointelectuais. A pesquisa de campo centrou-se em uma escola do Município do Embu que possuía um projeto de recuperação para alunos com dificuldades em leitura e escrita: o Projeto Letras e Livros e contou com observações e entrevistas semi-estruturadas com as professoras regentes de classe (que encaminham as crianças) e as professoras atuantes no Projeto Letras e Livros, além de observações das reuniões de conselho de classe ao longo do ano letivo de 2006. Tanto o Projeto analisado quanto a escola que serviu como campo para a pesquisa foram escolhidos devido à boa estrutura e organização e aos bons resultados que vinham mostrando nos anos de 2002 a 2006. Os resultados apontaram para a confirmação de que, independentemente de um trabalho articulado e reflexivo por parte das professoras, ainda se culpabiliza a família e a pobreza de algumas crianças, numa maioria de meninos, pela sua dificuldade de aprendizagem. Porém, esta questão não se apresentou tão forte quanto a literatura acadêmica vem mostrando. Na escola pesquisada, os aspectos referentes à não adequação da criança a um ofício de aluno valorizado pelas professoras - este ofício de aluno é tomado aqui como um modelo da maneira como o aluno ou a aluna deve se comportar, agir e ser dentro das dinâmicas escolares, ou seja, o não ajuste de algumas crianças ao que é esperado delas no momento de se organizar, se concentrar na aula, se comportar diante dos colegas e da professora, etc., - pode fazer com que a criança seja percebida como um/a aluno/a com dificuldade de aprendizagem. Algumas dificuldades citadas pelas professoras, entretanto, são percebidas mais em meninos e outras em meninas, evidenciando que as construções sociais sobre o masculino e o feminino contam muito ao avaliar quem precisa ou não de apoio extra na aprendizagem escolar. / This study presents the results of a research aimed at analyzing how teachers perceive male and female students who were referred to parallel studies. It intended to verify if the reasons why students are sent to those activities differ or not between male and female students. The research was based on gender and educational studies as well as studies on school failure and success. The first hypothesis was that boys were referred to parallel studies not necessarily because of their learning difficulties, but mostly as a result of indiscipline or due to a blaming the family discourse, which claims the child has difficulties because the family does not help him with the schoolwork. On the other hand, girls learning difficulties seemed to result from shyness, apathy or mental illness, that is, the reasons why teachers referred girls to parallel studies were mostly based on inner difficulties. Thus, as their difficulties were connected to psycho-intellectual issues, there was almost no hope those activities could facilitate their learning process. The field work was developed at a municipal school in Embu. The chosen school had a parallel study project to students with reading and writing difficulties: Projeto Letras e Livros (Letters and Books Project). The research was carried out with both classroom teachers (who would refer students to the project) as well as with the teachers of the project. The professionals were interviewed and observed during school council meetings throughout the year 2006. Both project and school were chosen because of efficient organization and positive results they showed between the years 2002 and 2006. The results of this research points out that even when there is a reflexive and articulated work among teachers at a school, it is still possible to hear them blaming family and poverty as the ones responsible for learning difficulties, especially for boys. However, those aspects were not as relevant to the teachers of the investigated school as they usually are in the academic literature. For those teachers, most important was the adequate performance of an approved role of the student. Here, this role consists of the way girls and boys must behave, act and be at school. The inadequate performance of this role students not meeting the expected attitude when they are asked to organize themselves, to concentrate or to behave with their teachers and classmates may lead teachers to perceive students as having learning difficulties. Moreover, some difficulties mentioned by the teachers were most perceived among boys whereas others were particularly mentioned about girls. This difference is evidence that the social construction of male and female greatly support the evaluation process of those who need or not parallel studies.

This study explored the discursive subject positions that 18 parents, teachers and administrators involved with children identified as experiencing learning difficulties in a Queensland regional primary school between September 2003 and August 2004 drew upon to explain the causes of those children’s learning difficulties. The study used a post-structuralist adaptation of positioning theory and social constructionism and a discourse analytic method to analyse relevant policy documents and participants’ semi-structured interview transcripts to interrogate what models were being used to explain a student's inability to access the curriculum. Despite the existence of alternative explanatory frameworks that functioned as relatively undeveloped resistant counternarratives, the study demonstrated the medical model’s overwhelming dominance in both Education Queensland policy statements and the participants’ subject positions. This dominance shapes and informs the adult stakeholders’ subjectivities and renders the child docile and potentially irrational.