Drawing upon rhetorical evidence of three art education activities in Worcester, Massachusetts at the close of the 19th century−The Public School Art League, evening drawing classes, and School Arts magazine−it is argued through this research that the many active facets of art education that occurred in Worcester at this time were constructed in great part as response to the economic climate of the city. This thesis argues that the activities were representative of art education for the improvement of public taste, patience, and the recognition of beauty. In this study, parallels are drawn between these three organizations and activities in Worcester, demonstrating many common initiators and motivations. Exploring art education motivations in Worcester at the turn of the 19th century, this investigation also advocates the need for the study of Japanese influence on art education activities in New England during this same period. / text

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The purpose of this study was to investigate eighth grade students&rsquo / perceptions of their mathematics teachers&rsquo / interpersonal behaviors. The study also investigated mathematics teachers&rsquo / perceptions of their own interpersonal behaviors as well as relationships among students&rsquo / perceptions of their teachers&rsquo / interpersonal behaviors, attitudes towards mathematics, mathematics achievements, student gender, teacher gender, and socio-economical background. Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI) scale and a mathematics attitude scale were used for data collection. Data were collected from a sample of 1317 eighth grade students in public elementary schools in the following provinces: istanbul, Ankara, izmir, Adana, Bursa, and Hatay. Statistical analyses revealed that the Turkish version of QTI translated and adapted by the researcher had an acceptable degree of validity and reliability. Results showed that Turkish students perceive their mathematics teachers as displaying high levels of leadership, helpful/friendly, understanding, and displaying strict behaviors rather than uncertain, admonishing and dissatisfied behaviors. The results also indicated that students&rsquo / perceptions of their mathematics teachers&rsquo / interpersonal behaviors were associated with their attitudes towards mathematics and their mathematics achievement. While the leadership, helpful/friendly, and understanding behaviors had positive correlations with attitude scores of students, the uncertain, dissatisfied, admonishing and strict behaviors had negative correlations. Similarly, students who perceived their teacher as displaying leadership, helping/friendly and understanding behavior had higher achievement levels than the ones who perceive their teacher as strict, uncertain, admonishing and dissatisfied. Students with higher cultural and economical background perceived their teachers more favorably. The MANOVA results indicated that girls generally perceived their mathematics teacher more cooperative than boys did. Also students perceived their male teachers display more leadership, helping/friendly, and strict behaviors than their female teachers. Results also indicated that teachers generally perceived themselves in a more favorably manner than their students did.

The purpose of this study was to identify the relative predictive influences of prior knowledge, meaningful learning orientation, formal reasoning ability and mode of instruction on understanding in photosynthesis and respiration in plants concepts. Two hundred thirty three 8th grade students from six classes of one elementary school in Ankara participated in this study. The study was carried out during the 2004-2005 Fall semester. Students in the experimental group (N=117) received conceptual change instruction, and the students in the control group (N=116) received traditional instruction. Two-tier multiple choice diagnostic test, &ldquo / Photosynthesis and Respiration in Plants Concept Test&rdquo / developed by Haslam and Treagust (1987), was used to determine students&rsquo / understanding of photosynthesis and respiration in plants concepts. The test was administered to the sample prior to the treatment as pre-test, and after the treatment as post-test. The pre-test scores were used as prior knowledge of students. Students&rsquo / reasoning abilities were measured by the &ldquo / Test of Logical Thinking&rdquo / and their learning orientations were measured by &ldquo / Learning Approach Questionnaire&rdquo / . The results of the study indicated that students held several misconceptions concerning photosynthesis and respiration in plants concepts. Significant differences between the experimental group and control group with respect to understanding of the concept were found in favor of experimental group. The main predictor of achievement in the experimental group was students&rsquo / prior knowledge, while it was reasoning ability in the control group. Meaningful learning orientation accounted for a small amount of variance in the experimental group but it did not contribute to understanding on post-test scores in traditional group.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:35:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 4738.pdf: 3913379 bytes, checksum: 8291de03f64c1c34393fc238cd698a5e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-26 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / This research, from a socio-historical perspective, focused the theme of young urban popular authors of offense and their relationship with the Public School in the city of São Carlos, São Paulo. Its overall objective was to investigate the relationship between the condition of youth enrolled in poverty and their school careers steeped interventions by institutions recognized as protection, according to the Statute of Children and Adolescents, once sparked the offense, in our case, the Núcleo de Atendimento Integrado (NAI). To this end, we worked with the monitoring and reconstruction of life stories of young people who committed the offense as well as analyzed the school reporting of young graduates from NAI System since its introduction in 2000 until the year 2009. This resulted in the production of a database with information from 2969 school reportings and the reconstruction of 10 teenagers life stories. Using these two data sources based on the understanding that the statistics can offer visibility and ability to generalize what their life stories is restricted because of their uniqueness, while those same stories, the depth of description and the accumulation of information, can qualify and provide concreteness to statistical analysis. Thus, the main results that this work points that young people that living in poor urban neighborhoods, attending Public School and accumulating grade failing, grade/age distortion and a high turnover within and among schools are more likely to enter the social-justice system. We emphasize the need to review the award to adolescence brand of social vulnerability, focusing the care failure and vulnerable situations that arise in the medium term in relation to the offenses are placed since the Childhood. Thus, points that the Public School is a protective element in the life of these young people, showing to the education sector linked to other social policies and family/community care that still need to be undertaken in Elementary School. Finally, it identifies the inadequacy of the system of social educational measures, focusing on open environment, its inefficiency in relation to the insertion and monitoring of their adolescents in the regular education and the demonstration that the entry in this system entails the incompleteness and the 'failure' of school life. We hoped that this study can provide references for coping vulnerabilities surrounding the daily life of adolescents and young urban popular groups and the construction of a Public School with the ability, at the same time providing quality education for all and recognizing the unique demands of caring for their students. The logic here is that this school is possible, since articulated with the network of local protection, services and community, and the operators realize the complexity of life and necessities showed by their public. / A presente pesquisa, a partir de uma perspectiva sócio-histórica, debruçou-se sobre a temática dos jovens populares urbanos autores de ato infracional e a sua relação com a Escola Pública, na cidade de São Carlos, interior de São Paulo. Seu objetivo geral foi investigar as relações entre a condição juvenil inscrita na pobreza e seus percursos escolares perpassados por intervenções de instituições reconhecidas como de proteção, segundo o Estatuto da Criança e Adolescente, uma vez deflagrado o ato infracional; no caso em estudo, o Núcleo de Atendimento Integrado (NAI). Para tanto, trabalhou-se com o acompanhamento e a reconstituição de histórias de vida de jovens que cometeram ato infrancional, bem como se analisou históricos escolares dos jovens egressos do Sistema NAI desde sua implantação, no ano de 2000, até o ano de 2009. Isso resultou na produção de um banco de dados com informações provenientes de 2969 históricos escolares e na reconstituição da história de vida de 10 adolescentes descritas e discutidas em seis narrativas. O uso dessas duas fontes de dados fundamenta-se na compreensão de que os dados estatísticos podem ofertar a visibilidade e a capacidade de generalização que nas histórias de vidas, por sua singularidade, é restrita, ao passo que essas mesmas histórias, pela profundidade da descrição e pelo acúmulo de informações, podem qualificar e dar concretude à análise estatística. Os principais resultados deste trabalho demonstram que são os jovens moradores das periferias urbanas, que frequentam a Escola Pública e que acumulam em sua trajetória escolar repetências, evasões, distorção série/idade e uma rotatividade intra e inter escolas, os mais propensos a adentrarem o sistema sociojurídico. Destaca-se a necessidade da revisão da atribuição à fase da adolescência da marca da vulnerabilidade social, colocando-se em foco que as insuficiências no cuidado e as situações de vulnerabilidade das quais podem decorrer, em médio prazo, o envolvimento com os atos infracionais estão presentes desde a Infância. Por outro lado, os dados evidenciam que a escola representou um elemento protetivo na trajetória desses jovens, demonstrando, para o setor educação, articulado com as demais políticas sociais e com a família/comunidade, que os cuidados precisam ser empreendidos ainda na Educação Infantil e no Ciclo I do Ensino Fundamental. Identificou-se também a inadequação do sistema de medidas socioeducativas, com foco nas de meio aberto, sua ineficiência no que se refere à inserção e ao acompanhamento dos adolescentes no ensino regular, bem como a demonstração de que a entrada nesse sistema acarreta dificuldades ainda maiores para uma trajetória escolar que já apontava precariedades importantes antes mesmo do ato infracional. A não finalização das etapas de escolarização, regular ou a de jovens e adultos, e o insucesso são marcas carregadas por esses jovens. Espera-se que este estudo possa oferecer referências para estratégias de enfrentamento às vulnerabilidades que cercam o cotidiano de adolescentes e jovens de grupos populares urbanos e para a construção de uma Escola Pública com a capacidade, de ao mesmo tempo, oferecer qualidade para todos e reconhecer as demandas singulares de cuidado dos seus alunos. A lógica aqui é de que essa Escola é possível, desde que articulada à rede de proteção local, de serviços e comunitária, e que seus agentes apreendam a complexidade da vida e as necessidades apresentadas pelo seu público.

[pt] Esta pesquisa objetivou estudar a geografia objetiva de oportunidades educacionais para o ensino médio regular da rede estadual da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, o que implica duas dimensões: a primeira seria a Geografia Objetiva de Oportunidades baseada no conceito de Galster e Killen (1995) para os quais o conceito convencional de igualdade de oportunidades deve ser expandido para além da igualdade de tratamento entre iguais e incluir a dimensão geográfica no processo de oportunidades, pois a geografia pode levar à desigualdades com graves consequências sociais. Neste sentido, é importante refletir sobre o espaço e seu papel no desenvolvimento das relações sociais. A cidade do Rio de Janeiro é caracterizada pela presença de grandes favelas, muitas das quais situadas próximas aos espaços mais nobres da cidade - modelo carioca de segregação: proximidade física e distância social. Portanto, é importante considerar como suas oportunidades educacionais estão distribuídas espacialmente. Especificando estas oportunidades educacionais temos a segunda dimensão: o ensino médio. Este nível de ensino passou por uma trajetória de muitas reformas, ora avançando no seu processo de democratização, ora criando obstáculos, além de pouco acesso à grandes parcelas da sociedade e de falta de consenso sobre seu papel – propedêutico ou profissional. Para mapear a geografia objetiva de oportunidades do ensino médio regular da rede estadual da cidade do Rio de Janeiro este trabalho envolveu a análise de dados referentes à educação disponíveis em levantamentos oficiais - Censo Demográfico de 2010 e Censo Escolar de 2012, a fim de caracterizar sua situação atual. Este mapeamento foi realizado utilizando-se ferramentas computacionais denominadas Sistemas de Informação Geográfica (SIG ou GIS). Os resultados indicam que sobre a geografia objetiva das oportunidades incidem forças políticas e sociais capazes de criar novas dinâmicas. / [en] This research aimed to study the objective geography of educational opportunities for regular high school of the educational state system of Rio de Janeiro s city, which implies two dimensions: the first one the Objective Geography of Opportunities based on the concept of Galster and Killen (1995) for which the conventional concept of equal opportunities should be expanded beyond the equal treatment of equals to include the geographical dimension in the process of opportunities which means that the geography can influence inequalities with serious social consequences. In this sense, it is important to think about space and its role in the development of social relationships. The city of Rio de Janeiro is characterized by large slums, many of them located next to the noblest city spaces - Rio s segregation model: physical proximity and social distance. Hence, is important to consider how its educational opportunities are distributed spatially. By specifying these educational opportunities we have the second dimension: high school. This level of education had a trend of many reforms which sometimes advanced in its democratization process and sometimes created obstacles. Besides, being a level of education is little access to large parts of society there was a lack of consensus about its role - introductory or professional. Aimings to map the objective geography of opportunities in the regular high school of the educational state system of Rio de Janeiro s city this job involved analyzing data related to education that are available in official surveys - Population Census 2010 and School Census 2012 - in order to characterize its current situation. This mapping was performed using computational tools called Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The results indicate that the objective geography of opportunities is affected by political and social forces, creating new dynamics.

abstract: ABSTRACT In Roosevelt v. Bishop (1994), Arizona public school districts and parents challenged Arizona's school financing system arguing that it was not "general and uniform" as required by the Arizona Constitution. The purpose of this study was to analyze Arizona's Students Fair and Immediate Resources for Students Today (Students FIRST) legislation, the remedy that resulted from the Roosevelt decision, empirically, and longitudinally. Three types of statistical analyses were conducted on a sample of 165 public school districts. Fiscal neutrality was measured for each of the eleven years of the study, to assess the association between the per-pupil Students FIRST funding level and the per-pupil property wealth. Multiple regression analysis was also conducted to assess if both property wealth and district size were associated with the distribution of Students FIRST funding. Finally, I analyzed the eleven-year average of the total Students FIRST funding distributed to school districts and assessed how the plaintiff districts ranked in the distribution. Overall, the findings revealed that Students FIRST met the fiscal neutrality standard in some, but not in all the categories and years of this study, per-pupil property wealth was only weakly related to, and district size was not associated with, Students FIRST funding. The analysis of average funding suggested that some property rich school districts benefited most from Students FIRST. These results suggest that the traditional measures used to assess the fiscal neutrality of operating funding may not be appropriate for assessing the fiscal neutrality of capital finance reforms. While the results of this study provide some suggestive evidence that Students FIRST did not fulfill the Court's mandate, additional research is needed as to whether or not Arizona's capital finance system has resulted in disparities in funding that fall short of the constitutional standard. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ed.D. Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2011

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No. of bitstreams: 1 figueiredo_pb_dr_bauru.pdf: 2708436 bytes, checksum: 69f9fb5fe2813132378496913f1aae3a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-05-28 / Considerando a trajetória da educação ambiental desde seu surgimento até sua instituição como política pública no Brasil, temos que embora o seu surgimento tenha se dado nos movimentos ecologistas, consolidando-se como uma preocupação da sociedade nas últimas décadas do século XX, a educação ambiental passou a ser incorporada no âmbito institucional de organismos como a ONU e a UNESCO incorporando uma perspectiva reformista e conciliatória entre desenvolvimento e sustentabilidade. Essa trajetória da educação ambiental, demonstra um processo de crescimento bastante significativo, inclusive pela garantia de sua inserção na educação escolar, principalmente após a promulgação da PNEA. Assim, com o intuito de analisar as propostas do Órgão Gestor da PNEA para as escolas no Brasil de 2002 a 2014, ou seja, o que definimos para esse estudo foi identificar a relação entre as propostas deste Órgão com aquelas realizadas nas escolas públicas de educação básica do estado de São Paulo. A partir de uma entrevista realizada com um dos Coordenadores Geral de Educação Ambiental do MEC, pudemos perceber que a política de educação ambiental elaborada pelo Órgão Gestor para as escolas configuram-se muito mais como programas do que propriamente como políticas públicas. Compreendidas as políticas públicas de educação ambiental - os programas - propostos pelo Órgão Gestor, buscamos investigar a presença das ações de educação ambiental nas escolas de educação básica do município definido . Os obstáculos e dificuldades enfrentados ao longo desse processo revelaram a fragilidade da formulação das políticas de educação ambiental como um campo de disputas, onde as diferentes vertentes que propõem ações educativas ambientais determinam, em última análise, a adequação e manutenção dos modelos hegemônicos de organização da sociedade. Desse modo, temos que por um lado, a lógica neoliberal orienta as políticas oficiais de educação ambiental caracterizando todo retrocesso que ela vem sofrendo no Brasil ao ponto de reduzir-se a um conjunto de programas, e, por outro lado, no âmbito da educação ambiental escolar, os obstáculos e dificuldades nos mostraram que a forma como se organiza a escola pública, enfraquecem ainda mais a educação ambiental que já vem frágil em forma de políticas públicas. / Considering the environmental education trajectory, from the beginning to its institution as public policy in Brazil, although its emergence has occurred in the ecological movements, consolidating itself as a society’s concern in the last decades of the twentieth century, environmental education has been incorporated into the institutional framework of organizations such as ONU and UNESCO incorporating a reformist and conciliatory perspective between development and sustainability. This trajectory of environmental education demonstrates a significant growth process, including the guarantee of its insertion in school education, especially after the promulgation of the PNEA. In order to analyze the proposals of PNEA Management System for schools in Brazil from 2002 to 2014, which has been defined for this study was to identify the relationship between the proposals of this organization and those carried out in public basic education schools in the state of São Paulo. From an interview with one of MEC Environmental Education General Coordinator, we realize that environmental education policy drawn up by the Management System for schools constitute a lot more like programs than as public policy. Understanding the environmental education public policies - the programs - proposed by the Managing System, we sought to investigate the presence of environmental education actions in the basic education schools from a chosen city. The obstacles and difficulties faced during this process revealed the fragility of the formulation of policies on environmental education as a battle field where the individual sections that propose environmental education actions determine, ultimately, the adequacy and maintenance of hegemonic models for society organization. So we have on one hand, the neoliberal logic that guides the official policies for environmental education featuring all setback it has suffered in Brazil as to reduce to a set of programs, and on the other hand, in education obstacles and difficulties have shown us that the way the public school is organized provokes further weakening in an environmental education that is already fragile in the form of public policies.

This study had objective to investigate the existence of spaces for democratic participation in municipal school system of Maceió, in the period 2005 to 2008. Initially focused to democratic management: its history and legal structure that had based its applicability in education. The approach with the object of research - the public schools of Maceió - has generated the need to know some specific features and characteristics of society Alagoas, for better understanding of the meaning of democratic space and how the City Department of Education translated into their Maceio documents and regulated the democratic management in your school network. The theoretical foundation of Paro (2001), Luck (2006), Libâneo (2004), Tavares (2003), Hora (2007), Verçosa (2006) and other, for a given field research in four elementary schools, where they applied the techniques of data collection, considering subjects as: managers, teachers, administrative staff, parents and pupils to understand how they saw and saw themselves as Participants in the context of democratic management, as the policy implemented in the municipal education network of Maceió. To meet the focus of the research were listed in 5 (five) categories related to participation, as a parameter for analysis of interviews and focus group. The study revealed that the areas of participation that exist at school does not serve the democratic exercise: there are moments of presence, not the decision-making. There not, however, demand for such spaces, always expect to be called, and when it occurs, no action is taken in the fight, which does not allow to move towards democratic practice / O objetivo era investigar a existência de espaços de participação democrática nas escolas da rede pública municipal de Maceió, no período de 2005 a 2008. Inicialmente enfocou-se a gestão democrática: seu histórico e a estrutura legal que embasaram sua aplicabilidade nos sistemas de ensino. A aproximação com o objeto da pesquisa - as escolas públicas municipais de Maceió gerou a necessidade de se conhecer algumas características e especificidades da sociedade alagoana, para a melhor compreensão do sentido do espaço democrático e de como a Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Maceió traduziu em seus documentos e regulamentou a gestão democrática em sua rede escolar. O aporte teórico de Paro (2001), Luck (2006), Libâneo (2004), Tavares (2003), Hora (2007), Verçosa (2006) e outros deu embasamento para a pesquisa de campo realizada em quatro escolas de ensino fundamental, onde foram aplicadas as técnicas de coleta de dados, considerando como sujeitos: gestores, professores, técnicos administrativos, pais e alunos visando perceber como viam e se viam como participantes no contexto da gestão democrática, enquanto política implantada na rede pública municipal de Maceió. Para atender ao foco da pesquisa foram elencadas 05 (cinco) categorias relacionadas à participação, como parâmetro para análise das entrevistas e grupo focais. O estudo realizado revelou que os espaços de participação que existem na escola não servem ao exercício democrático: são momentos de presença, não de tomada de decisões. Não há, no entanto, reivindicação por esses espaços, esperam sempre ser chamados, e quando não ocorre, nenhuma atitude de luta é tomada, o que não permite que se evolua no sentido da prática democrática.

Submitted by Diogo Misoguti (diogo.misoguti@gmail.com) on 2016-06-21T10:56:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 alexandre-weingrill-araujo.pdf: 2777608 bytes, checksum: 7338cf4218f100156cd5e80562b36bd9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Diogo Misoguti (diogo.misoguti@gmail.com) on 2016-06-21T10:58:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 alexandre-weingrill-araujo.pdf: 2777608 bytes, checksum: 7338cf4218f100156cd5e80562b36bd9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-21T10:58:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 alexandre-weingrill-araujo.pdf: 2777608 bytes, checksum: 7338cf4218f100156cd5e80562b36bd9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-09 / Secretaria de Educação do Estado de São Paulo / Este trabalho discute a questão da identidade do ensino médio no Brasil, que se afigura como questão pressurosa na atualidade, tendo em vista a promulgação da Lei nº 12.796, de 2013, que na prática tornou tal nível obrigatório para os adolescentes brasileiros. Nesse sentido, a pesquisa procurou conhecer as concepções de ensino médio por parte de um grupo de professores, alunos e gestores. Para melhor contextualizar as concepções dos sujeitos de pesquisa foi feito um panorama das principais políticas educativas e das discussões que revolvem em torno de tal nível, sobretudo a partir de 1996, quando foi promulgada a Lei de Diretrizes e Bases em vigor. O embasamento teórico para a realização deste trabalho vem, principalmente, das formulações teóricas de François Dubet para ação social e de Antonio Cândido para a compreensão da cultura escolar. Foram selecionadas duas escolas da rede estadual paulista no município de Suzano, em São Paulo, com perfis socioeconômicos distintos, sendo que uma possui perfil típico de escolas periféricas dos grandes centros urbanos, com público com limitações socioeconômicas, e a outra se situa na região central da cidade e possui perfil mais heterogêneo, comportando alunos de diversos estratos sociais. Desse modo, por meio de incursões nestas duas escolas, foram feitas observações de campo em diferentes ambientes, como salas de aula, sala dos professores e o pátio. Além disso, foram aplicados questionários a duas turmas do segundo ano no período da manhã, procurando conhecer as condições socioeconômicas bem como hábitos de lazer, as opiniões sobre a escola e as aspirações para o futuro dos estudantes. Aliadas às observações de campo e aos questionários, também foram realizadas entrevistas com alunos, professores e gestores. O intuito foi saber que concepções e expectativas esses sujeitos têm em relação à etapa final da educação básica e como estas se reconfiguram frente às limitações impostas no cotidiano escolar. A pesquisa buscou também conhecer as propostas que os sujeitos entrevistados fazem para tal nível. Este trabalho concluiu que os sujeitos escolares atribuem importante potência formativa à escola de ensino médio, tanto no âmbito da preparação para o mercado de trabalho, quanto para a preparação para a vida em sociedade e a construção de cidadania, mas que essa potência não se realiza. Os motivos apontados para isso foram as deficiências dos níveis escolares anteriores, a política da progressão continuada, a falta de presença da família no ambiente escolar, o desinteresse dos jovens pela escola, a falta de espaços adequados, a monotonia da vida escolar e a ausência de atividades diversificadas, a falta de escuta por parte dos profissionais da escola, a falta de unidade e comprometimento do corpo profissional da escola e a distância entre os órgãos definidores das políticas educacionais e a unidade escolar. / The present work aims at discussing the identity of the high school level in Brazil, a very important issue especially after the promulgation of the law number 12.796, of 2013, which made this school level obligatory for all Brazilian teenagers. Thus this research endeavored to know the conceptions of the high school of a group of students, teachers and school managers. To better contextualize the conceptions of the subjects of the high school I make an overview of the governmental policies for this level, especially after 1996 when the current national curriculum guidelines were stablished. The theoretical basis for this work comes mostly from the theoretical formulations of François Dubet for social action and from Antonio Candido related to the study of the school culture. Two state-run schools with different socialeconomical profiles in the city of Suzano were chosen as the places of the research. One of them is situated in the outskirts of the city with the typical student profile from poor metropolitan areas and the other is situated in the center of the city, with more heterogeneous students’ profiles. Thus, I made fieldwork incursions in both places and observed several situations of the school routine in environments such as the classrooms, the teachers’ room and the recreation area for the students. Questionnaires were applied to two classes of the second high school year in both places to determine their social-economical background as well as their leisure habits, their opinions about the school and their goals for the future. Besides that, a group of students, teachers and school managers from both places were interviewed. The goal was to know the expectations these subjects bring in regard to the high school, how these expectations change in the face of the difficulties of the school routine and what proposals for the high school level they make. This work concluded that the teachers, students and school managers attribute an important formative role to the school, which is not fulfilled due to its deficiencies. The deficiencies pointed by the school subjects were the insufficiency of the previous levels and the promotion to the following grade of students who did not reach the minimum level of knowledge required, the lack of interest for the school by both the students and their families, the absence of adequate spaces in school for the development of new teaching methodologies, the monotony of school life for the teenagers, the lack of dialogue and unity in the school staff and the distance between the governmental bodies in which educational policies are defined and the school.