Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-11-07T11:43:20Z No. of bitstreams: 1 André Luiz Rebelo da Silva.pdf: 478080 bytes, checksum: f445d55c4d8fdce7f877dae42dd3df80 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-07T11:43:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 André Luiz Rebelo da Silva.pdf: 478080 bytes, checksum: f445d55c4d8fdce7f877dae42dd3df80 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-10-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The discussion about the purpose of secondary education, as well as its social function, is as old as the very existence of this segment as an integral part of what is now called basic education. In the context of its commitment to the student learning process, there has always been a duality related to the propaedeutic high school and the vocational high school. The history of education, however, reveals another face of this schooling phase, concerning to the market opportunities that the private initiative found in the exploitation of this level of education. This research intends to carry out an analysis on the type of productions which have been made by the postgraduate programs about private secondary education. It is a bibliographical research of quantitative-qualitative nature, which analyzes data from the abstracts available in the bank of thesis pertaining to CAPES (Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel),within the period of 2013-2016.It refers to 121 productions about high school education in Brazil, and aims at answering questions concerning to who, when, where and how has studied the Brazilian secondary education through academic productions. Analysis have been theoretically supported by the contributions of cultural materialism (Williams, 1980), through which particularities of material production to understand socio-historical practices have been verified. It is concluded that, among other factors, there is little interest in private secondary education as an object of research. Most of the academic productions are predominantly concentrated in the São Paulo State by education and teaching programs, and their studies prioritize the thematic fields of teaching and pedagogical practices / A discussão sobre a finalidade do Ensino Médio, bem como sua função social, é tão antiga quanto a própria existência desse segmento como parte integrante do que se chama hoje educação básica, sendo que uma das tensões básicas existentes desde o advento da República foi o do embate entre ensino público e privado. Tendo esse embate como foco desta pesquisa e tendo em vista a disseminação de uma visão crítica que culpabiliza o poder público pela baixa qualidade do seu sistema de ensino, que possibilitou a emergência e expansão do ensino médio privado, esta dissertação teve como finalidade investigar os contextos acadêmicos nos quais o ensino médio privado foi tema de pesquisa, no intuito de verificar o que vem sendo produzido nos programas de pós-graduação sobre essa etapa da educação básica, por meio de balanço tendencial das dissertações e teses contidas no Banco de Teses da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES, no período de 2013 a 2016. O corpus da investigação, após processos de seleção foi composto 121 produções sobre o ensino médio privado no Brasil, a fim de responder quem, quando, onde e como tem sido investigado o ensino médio privado nas produções acadêmicas brasileiras. As análises foram orientadas pelas contribuições do materialismo cultural (Williams, 1980), por meio do qual se verifica particularidades da produção material para compreender as práticas sócio históricas, como expressão dos contextos em que foram produzidos, sendo que o principal achado diz respeito à utilização do ensino médio, nessas pesquisas, como campo empírico de investigações localizadas, especialmente para aplicar e avaliar procedimentos didáticos específicos, assim como a quase inexistência de estudos que procuraram analisar de forma crítica a sua natureza e função social, já que o ensino médio privado, embora quantitativamente englobe alunado reduzido em relação às matrículas totais, exerce uma função importante no que se refere aos históricos e continuados processos de seletividade escolar, que penalizam os setores subalternos da sociedade brasileira

This thesis provides an ethnography of the final year at an emerging middle-class private high school in the Northeast of Brazil. It draws on 15 months of fieldwork, including participant observation in the classroom wherein I followed students whilst they prepared for vestibular (the university entrance exam). Students' movements through Fortaleza, one of the world's most unequal cities, produced knowledge about the kind of person that one could and should be in the future. Private schooling appeared to provide a route for students to realise that metaphorical (and perhaps physical) movement. Vestibular served as a sort of rite of passage that could transform (emerging middle-class) youth into (middle-class) adults. Students and teachers characterised vestibular as a luta (fight) that could be won with enough training, flexibility and commitment. Good or high self-esteem was needed to overcome laziness and endure this luta and, thus, teachers and students worked on producing better self-esteem through affective work. Dreams (aspirations for the future) also played a critical role: the school encouraged students to engage in time work, to imagine appropriate future(s) into which students could channel their energies in the present. This version of individual power differed from the political and economic power structures portrayed in the classroom. Students grew indignant as, through curriculum and pedagogy, they came to understand that they were oppressed and that Brazil was underdeveloped and not quite modern. The university entrance exam served as a national meritocratic ritual that portrayed Brazil as becoming modern with governable and governing citizens. Students resisted these assertions and/but their cynicisms belied hope for better imagined futures. Using the classroom as container, this thesis presents a portrait of people and ideas in formation during a post-Lula era.