Submitted by Rosivalda Pereira (mrs.pereira@ufma.br) on 2017-06-27T20:57:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseEduardoOliveira.pdf: 1638823 bytes, checksum: 25e34796c1a9c5e1d97707a32aaa9cc3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-27T20:57:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseEduardoOliveira.pdf: 1638823 bytes, checksum: 25e34796c1a9c5e1d97707a32aaa9cc3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-28 / It is largely observed that the discipline and subjective processes are given at school by the devices present in this institution conciliated with time, it is in this environment that the individual remains the most of his formative years, considering that this period of development is increased, thereby enhancing the scope, the creation and improvement of political technologies of the body and subjectivity practices. This theoretical and empirical objective research deterritorialize / defamiliarize the analysis of these important subjectification devices which are the "educational practices", from the microphysics formulated by Foucault. It offers a reading power in terms of multiple relationships, which runs through the micro scale structuring activities of individuals in society and institutions. Power is present in all institutions, relationships and situations, so it is also present in the construction of scientific knowledge, in their statements, their applications, which expand and branch, reaching the sphere of education and scientific knowledge produced in this area. Thus, it was decided to move from the concept of microphysics to think about the pedagogical practice, watching their assemblages, truth games, lines of forces poured into the subjectivity of student and teacher. We have indeed come a long way throughout arch genealogical method path of UNESCO's official texts on education, as well as an epistemological way, noting that the pedagogical practice, although it is responsible for the collective production of knowledge has become a knowledge subjected. With regard to the field research a perspective was aimed, on one hand to the understanding which teachers have about teaching practice in the particular universe area of knowledge of each, and on the other one, unveiling pedagogical resistance, where there is power considering from Foucault, there must be a resistance to it, that is inventive, mobile and productive. From there, shifted these power resistance characteristics, to think pedagogical practices that can counteract the power structures that feed the focus of theory and practice and consolidate a pedagogical practice merely of instruction, detaching from a broader formation. Finally, it was observed as a result, the teaching practice has become a knowledge subjected responsible for teaching and student subjectivity and feeds the rift between theory and practice. / Observa-se que em grande medida os processos de disciplinarização e subjetivação se dão no espaço escolar pelos dispositivos presentes nessa instituição coadunando com o tempo, pois é neste ambiente que o indivíduo permanece a maior parte de sua vida formativa, considerando que cada vez esse tempo é acrescido, aumentando, assim, o alcance, a criação e aperfeiçoamento de tecnologias políticas do corpo e práticas de subjetivação. A presente pesquisa de natureza teórica e empírica, objetiva desterritorializar/desfamiliarizar as análises de um desses importantes dispositivos de subjetivação que são as “práticas pedagógicas”, a partir da microfísica formulada por Foucault. Este oferece uma leitura de poder em termos de múltiplas relações, que perpassa a escala micro estruturando atividades de indivíduos na sociedade e instituições. O poder se faz presente em todas instituições, relações e situações, assim ele está presente também na construção do conhecimento científico, em seus enunciados, suas aplicações, que se ampliam e ramificam-se, alcançando a esfera da educação e do saber científico produzido nessa área. Dessa feita, optou-se nessa pesquisa por deslocar a conceituação de microfísica para pensar a prática pedagógica, observando seus agenciamentos, seus jogos de verdade, suas linhas de forças vertidas à subjetividade do aluno e do professor. Percorreu-se ainda um trajeto arqueogenealógico de textos oficiais da UNESCO sobre educação, bem como um caminho epistemológico, observando que a prática pedagógica, embora seja responsável pela produção coletiva do conhecimento, se tornou um saber sujeitado. Quanto à pesquisa de campo, objetivou-se perspectivar por um lado o entendimento que os docentes têm sobre prática pedagógica no universo específico da área de saber de cada um, e por outro desvelar práticas pedagógicas de resistência, considerando a partir de Foucault que onde existe o poder, deve existir uma resistência a ele, que seja inventiva, móvel e produtiva. Dessa feita, deslocou-se essas características de resistência ao poder, para pensar práticas pedagógicas que possam se contrapor a estruturas de poder que alimentam o foço entre teoria e prática e consolidam uma prática pedagógica meramente de instrução, distanciando-se de uma formação mais ampla. Por fim, observou-se como resultado, que a prática pedagógica tornou-se um saber sujeitado, responsável pela subjetivação docente e discente e alimenta a fissura entre teoria e prática.

Esta tese apresenta a análise de um estudo de caso de tipo etnográfico realizado em uma escola da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Pelotas – RS. Objetiva acessar as características que identificam/diferenciam essa escola e a posicionam em relação ao cumprimento da sua função educacional. Investiga a temática "qualidade" sob os seguintes pressupostos: as escolas exercem diferentemente sua influência sobre o aprendizado e sobre as oportunidades educacionais; a “qualidade” no âmbito educacional não pode ser avaliada, estritamente, pelos resultados de provas ou exames de larga escala; as condições vividas pelos sujeitos no interior de uma escola trazem a marca política, dando a ela contornos finais cruzados e implicados com e por determinações e potencialidades muito amplas; a escola, como instituição social, pode respeitar o direito do sujeito de aprender a ser humano. Nesse sentido, desenvolveu-se a tese que afirma: a despeito da tendência de precarização e da perspectiva de fracasso que recaem sobre a educação pública, há escolas que podem produzir/traduzir relações que favoreçam o desenvolvimento de ações a partir das quais é possível constituir processos educativos inclusivos e de qualidade no âmbito educacional. O estudo teve como universo teórico, vertentes que têm-se ocupado da temática “escolarização”, associada à atenção aos designados “diferentes”, como é o caso da Pedagogia Institucional e da Pedagogia Dialógica. A investigação envolveu as seguintes ações: observação e elaboração de diário de campo, entrevistas e análise documental. Os conceitos e significados que incidiram sobre a experiência de investigação foram submetidos à análise temática, chegando a três grandes vias de condução e sistematização dos dados: a escola na vida, a escola em processo e a escola nas relações. O estudo analisou as regularidades e as singularidades das práticas pedagógicas e as negociações estabelecidas no contexto, além das evidências de políticas que sustentam a “esperada” qualidade educacional. / This thesis presents the analysis of an ethnographic case study carried out in a Municipal School in Pelotas – (RS- Brazil). It has in view to access the characteristics which identify/distinguish such school and position it as to the fulfillment of its educational function. It investigates the theme of “quality” under the following assumptions: schools wield influence over learning and over educational opportunities in different ways; “quality” in education can not be strictly assessed by the results of general achievement tests and exams; the conditions lived by subjects within a school bear a political imprint, with final contours crossed and implied with and by very broad determinations and potentialities; schools, as social institutions, can respect the right of the subject to learning to be human. In this sense, the thesis was developed on the assertion that despite a trend for precariousness as well as the perspective of failure which dooms public education, there are schools capable of producing/translating relations favorable to the development of processes that will allow the constitution of inclusive educational processes of quality. The study was theoretically framed by positions that have dealt with the problem of “schooling” associated to the attention to those assigned as “different”, such as the Institutional Pedagogy and the Dialogic Pedagogy. The investigation has involved observation and elaboration of field journal, interviews and document analysis. The concepts and meanings that presented themselves in the research experience were submitted to thematic analysis, attaining three large ways for the conduction and systematization of data: the school in life, the school in process and the school in relationships. The study analyzed the regularities and singularities of the pedagogical practices and the negotiations established in the context, as well as the evidence of policies that support the “sohoped- for” educational quality.

Este estudo consiste em uma pesquisa qualitativa, do tipo estudo de caso, que teve como objetivo compreender quais especificidades das práticas pedagógicas caracterizam uma escola no campo como do campo. Para tanto, foram realizadas imersões na Escola de Ensino Fundamental São Sebastião, localizada em área rural no município de Marcelino Ramos/RS, durante 25 dias entre os meses de agosto e dezembro de 2016. Várias foram as estratégias utilizadas nesta pesquisa para a produção de dados, tais quais: observação participante, conversas em grupos focais com adultos e com crianças, entrevistas semies-truturadas com famílias e análise documental. Os registros foram feitos em diários de campo, com o uso de gravadores de voz digital, capturas fotográficas e filmagens. A aná-lise dos dados evidenciou ações pedagógicas que favorecem que se viva, no contexto pesquisado, uma perspectiva de escola no/do campo, tais como: a reelaboração constan-te do Projeto Político Pedagógico junto a comunidade escolar propiciando que este seja gerador de práticas pedagógicas condizentes com a realidade sociocultural local e com a legislação vigente; a intensa parceria entre família e escola; a valorizaç~o das “coisas do campo” nas práticas pedagógicas da instituição; e o reconhecimento do brincar como possibilitador da construção de significados do campo na escola, a partir de vivências das crianças junto de suas famílias e no próprio contexto escolar. / This work is a qualitative research, defined as study case, whose objective was to unders-tand which pedagogical specifities characterize a school in the countryside, as from (in accordance to) the countryside. For this purpose, immersions were carried out in the São Sebastião Elementary School, located in a rural area of Marcelino Ramos/RS, for 25 days between August and December/2016. Several strategies were employed in this research to produce the presented data, such as: participant observation, focus group discussions with adults and children, semi-structured interviews with families and documentary analysis. Records were made in field journals, with the use of digital voice recorders, photographic captures and filming. Data analysis showed pedagogical actions favoring the existence of a school with perspectives in/from the countryside, as: the constant re-elaboration of the Pedagogical Political Project, with the school community, generating pedagogical practices consistent with socio-cultural reality and local legislation; the inten-se partnership between Family and school; the recognition, in the pedagogical practices of the institution, of the "things from the countryside"; and the acknowledgment of pla-ying, and ludicity, to construct the meaning of the countryside in the school from the ex-periences of the children, in the school context, and with their families.

Essa pesquisa focaliza as práticas dos professores da EJA Educação de Jovens e Adultos em três escolas da Rede Municipal de São Paulo, com ênfase nos professores de Geografia, a partir de suas histórias de vida e de suas formações. Para isto, numa vertente buscamos apresentar um referencial teórico baseado nas narrativas autobiográficas de alguns professores que lecionam tanto na EJA quanto no Ensino Regular como forma de compreensão de suas práticas. Buscamos contextualizar essas práticas em relação à trajetória da EJA mediante o exame das políticas educacionais desenvolvidas nas esferas federal e municipal (São Paulo), no período que se estende dos anos 1950 até a presente data noutra vertente, a partir da perspectiva teórica utilizada por Nóvoa (1992, 2010), buscamos compreender o sentido dessas práticas mediante a descrição e análise das histórias de vida e formação desses professores, que possibilitou desvelar as representações docentes sobre o processo de ensino e sobre o aluno da EJA em contraposição às representações sobre o ensino e o aluno do curso regular. Dessa maneira, foi possível verificar que as histórias de vida e de formação dos professores pesquisados dialogam pouco com a necessidade de adequar o fazer docente às especificidades dessa modalidade de ensino. Foi possível constatar que há uma conexão fundamental entre as histórias de vida e de formação dos professores com o seu fazer pedagógico, mas que por outro lado, não são suficientes para explicar as deficiências pedagógicas observadas nessa modalidade de ensino. No especifico do ensino da Geografia, evidencia-se uma proposta de orientação apresentada pelo Município de São Paulo que dialoga insuficientemente tanto com os docentes quanto com os alunos dessa modalidade. Por fim, pensamos que seja necessário refletir sobre a EJA na sua estrutura como um todo, ou seja, nos seus aspectos políticos, sociais, pedagógicos e, sobretudo, nos profissionais que nela atuam para que seja possível compreende-la em suas mais variáveis facetas. / This research focuses on the practices of teachers of adult education - Education for Youth and Adults in three schools of the Municipal of São Paulo, with emphasis on teachers of Geography, from their life stories and their formations. For this, we present a component based on a theoretical autobiographical narratives of some professors who teach both the EJA as the Regular Education as a way of understanding their practices. We tried to contextualize these practices in relation to the trajectory of EJA by examining the educational policies developed at the federal and municipal (São Paulo), the period extending from the 1950s to date another aspect, from the theoretical perspective used by Nóvoa (1992, 2010), we seek to understand the meaning of these practices through the description and analysis of life histories and training of these teachers, which allowed revealing the representations teachers about teaching and about the student as opposed to the EJA representations about teaching and student the regular course. Thus, it was possible to see that the life stories and training of teachers surveyed some dialogue with the need to adapt the teaching to the specificities of this teaching modality. It was found that there is a fundamental connection between the life stories and training of teachers with their pedagogical, but on the other hand, are not sufficient to explain the educational deficiencies observed in this type of education. In the specific teaching of geography, it becomes clear guidance presented a proposal to the Municipality of São Paulo which speaks poorly both with teachers and with students of this modality. Finally, we believe it is necessary to reflect on the EJA in its structure as a whole, ie, in its political, social, educational and above all, the professionals who work in it so you can understand it in its most facets variables.

Presently, over five million English-language learners (ELLs) are being educated in U.S. schools, and by the year 2020, more than half of the public school system population in the U.S. will be from families whose native language is not English (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2005). Culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) (Ladson-Billings, 1995) provides a framework for classroom teachers to meet the needs of diverse learners. This ethnographic case study describes what CRP looks like for young ELLs and how a pre-kindergarten school teacher and her bilingual paraprofessional successfully implement CRP. This study: (a) examined the manifestation of culturally relevant pedagogy in a pre-kindergarten classroom for English-language learners, and (b) investigated the ways two teachers promoted three central tenets of CRP in their pre-kindergarten classroom: (1) academic success; (2) cultural competence; and (3) critical consciousness. The research questions were explored by collecting fieldnotes during 20 classroom observations, 3 individual interview transcripts, 3 individual member-checking transcripts, and 15 classroom documents. Findings were based on an open-coding analysis process and a priori coding to demonstrate examples of culturally relevant pedagogical practices and beliefs. The data suggests five major principles of CRP for young ELLs: (1) Oral multilingual classroom language experiences for young children occurred frequently; (2) Monolingual and bilingual teacher collaboration was beneficial for teachers and young children’s language and cultural development; (3) Children’s funds of knowledge were employed and integrated into classroom learning experiences; (4) Peer-to-peer interactions promoted language learning, literacy, and cultural understandings; and (5) Teachers’ and children’s acknowledgement of cultural similarities and differences were built upon. Furthermore, teachers promoted academic success by not accepting student failure and making students responsible for the academic success of their peers; cultural competence is established when teachers encourage children to interact effectively with others from different cultures; and critical consciousness is fostered when children know their authentic stories, are able to stand up for themselves, and ask questions about the world around them. These findings provide a greater understanding of CRP for young ELLs, specifically in a pre-kindergarten context, and hold important implications on future research on CRP.

Distance learning is one of the most important forces driving educational reform today. Headlines touting the benefits of educational technology are commonplace in journal articles and newspaper and television reports. In the past five years, we have seen an explosion in the number of computer-mediated courses offered at two- and four-year institutions. An area of particular growth has been that of asynchronous online instruction. This growth has spurred the development of a new construct, the study of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL). Research on collaborative learning within the setting of online instruction is limited and anecdotal at best. Emergent research on CSCL shows learners in this learning environment are not isolated. It is a vibrant network of people--an interactive learning community--that is not limited by time, place, or the constraints of a classroom. Examination of the practical application of this theory is critical, especially when withdrawal rates for distance learning courses can range from 30-80%. Therefore, there is a need to understand the experiences and perceptions of distant learning students and the instructional strategies used by faculty within the online classroom where the social and cultural context of the learning community is created. The purpose of this qualitative study was to observe the pedagogical practices used by online instructors and examine the perceptions and characteristics of those students taking community college online courses. Then, compare this finding to what research says is needed for online instruction to support and foster computer supported collaborative learning. This study focused on four community college instructors who teach web-based courses in English, developmental mathematics, history and management. The study also examined the demographics of the students taking these online courses in order to provide a descriptive background of the participants and to assess their perceptions and experiences. The research questions addressed in this study were: 1) What pedagogical strategies do instructors teaching online courses use?; 2) How do online instructors promote collaborative learning communities?; and 3) What are the learning experiences of the students who take online courses? / text

Η σχολική αποτυχία αποτελεί διαχρονικά το ζητούμενο του εκπαιδευτικού συστήματος. Φαινόμενο πολυσχιδές και πολυδιάστατο προσεγγίζεται ερευνητικά με διαφόρους τρόπους. Στην έρευνά μας επιχειρούμε να συνδέσουμε την αντιμετώπιση της σχολικής αποτυχίας με την επιμόρφωση των εκπαιδευτικών, ως φορέα διαμόρφωσης παιδαγωγικών πρακτικών ανάσχεσης του φαινομένου. Αξιοποιώντας το θεωρητικό πλαίσιο του B. Bernstein και εφαρμόζοντας την πολυμεθοδολογική προσέγγιση έρευνας – συνέντευξη και παρατήρηση στο πεδίο – συλλέξαμε τα δεδομένα μας και οδηγηθήκαμε σε συγκεκριμένα συμπεράσματα. Διαπιστώσαμε ότι η επιμόρφωση των εκπαιδευτικών υπολείπεται στη διαδικασία συγκρότησης παιδαγωγικών πρακτικών που θα συμβάλλουν στον περιορισμό της σχολικής αποτυχίας. Οι κυρίαρχες παιδαγωγικές πρακτικές εμφανίζονται ομοιόμορφα, με επιμέρους διαφοροποιήσεις, αποτελούν διαδικασία μύησης στον κυρίαρχο κώδικα και συμβάλλουν στην πολιτισμική αναπαραγωγή ρυθμίζοντας τη συνείδηση των υποκειμένων. Τέλος, οι εκπαιδευτικοί μετέρχονται συγκεκριμένες στρατηγικές για τη στήριξη των "αδύνατων" μαθητών, οι οποίες επιφέρουν μια επιπλέον διαστρωμάτωση στην ήδη διαστρωματίζουσα παιδαγωγική πρακτική. / All over the years, school failure has been the aim of the educational system. Being a rather multifaceted and multidimensional phenomenon, school failure can be approached in various ways. This research attempts to associate facing school failure with in-service training which can be regarded as an agent to eliminate it. Utilizing B. Berstein’s theoretical framework and applying mixed methodology in our research – interview and observation in the field – we collected our data and reached certain conclusions. We found that in-service training falls short of establishing pedagogical practices that could help to reduce school failure. Dominant pedagogical practices are common, having only a few variations, and conductive to cultural reproduction as they influence the consciousness of the subjects. Finally, teachers use certain strategies to support weak students causing an additional stratification to pedagogical practice which is already stratifying

This study examines collaborative work between colleagues in the newsroom of local radio stations. Through the framework of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis the overall aim is to explore how backstage work in the newsroom is initiated, established, and negotiated as a collective knowledge-based practice. Based on video ethnographic fieldwork in five local radio stations, the analyses demonstrate how the newsroom is constituted as a collegial knowledge-based practice through the ways in which colleagues contribute to the accomplishment of seemingly individual tasks in the production of news, and through encounters where journalists request assistance from colleagues to carry out work assignments that are typically technical/practical in their character. The analyses highlight the participants’ epistemic orientations as an interactional engine, but emphasize how this orientation is made relevant for professional actions. Examining in detail how members orient to epistemic asymmetries when requesting assistance in individual tasks, it is shown how accounts expressed in those situations are often double barreled in that they also explicate if the current situation is to be met with instructions or a division of labour. When examining the interactional sequences that ensue in response to requests for help, it is shown how those situations can be understood as communicative pedagogical projects, how the tutor in situ must decompose the overall task into relevant steps and formulate these composite actions so they can be recognized and performed by the colleague. It is also shown how embodied action or absence of expected embodied action is treated as expressions of knowledge, that is, epistemic stance. In these everyday pedagogical practices, the participants establish a local rationality and a situation where two professional colleagues interact. The study thus demonstrates how interaction with colleagues contributes to institutional tasks as well as to the development of different professional skills. In highlighting collaborative work between colleagues in newsrooms the study contributes to the field of epistemics in social interaction, collegial work, talk in institutions, and newsroom ethnographies.

Esta tese, intitulada Docência no Ensino Superior: revelando saberes dos professores da área da saúde da Unicruz, trata do papel exercido do papel exercido pelas universidades comunitárias no desenvolvimento científico e humano; na colaboração com a produção e disseminação do conhecimento produzido; na necessidade de buscar cada vez mais a qualificação do trabalho desenvolvido pelos profissionais da área da saúde. Para isso, o problema da investigação assim se expressa: Dentre os saberes mobilizados na prática pedagógica dos professores da área da saúde, quais os que se evidenciam/predominam e em que situações pedagógicas qualificam sua prática. Na proposição de tese, os professores dos cursos de Biomedicina, Enfermagem, Farmácia, Fisioterapia, Nutrição são sujeitos do conhecimento, e sua prática é um espaço de produção e mobilização de saberes. Os objetivos que delimitam e cercam o objeto de investigação consistem em: (re) conhecer os saberes mobilizados na prática pedagógica dos professores da área da saúde; identificar os saberes que predominam/evidenciam na prática, bem como os motivos; analisar as situações que qualificam a prática pedagógica. A abordagem é de natureza qualitativa da pesquisa, através de um estudo de caso. A opção foi por estruturar a tese em duas partes: o contexto dos saberes docentes e o sentido do saberes na realidade institucional. Para tanto, perpassam as duas partes os três grandes eixos do trabalho: I universidade: surgimento e contribuições; trajetória e compromisso; II – docência universitária: concepções e sentidos; III – saberes docentes: vivências e desafios. A fim de dar conta do entrelaçamento dos saberes, a tese está organizada em quatro capítulos. Os sujeitos que fizeram parte da pesquisa e que responderam ao questionário semiestruturado foram em número de dez professores, dois de cada um dos cursos, com amostra intencional, tendo-se, como critério, professores que estivessem trabalhando há mais de um ano na universidade, efetivos e que demonstrassem interesse pelo estudo. Com a síntese e análise dos questionários, foram selecionados cinco docentes para a entrevista, tendo em vista o aprofundamento de algumas questões. Foram definidas, como categorias, os saberes mobilizados na prática pedagógica; os saberes que se evidenciam/predominam; as situações pedagógicas que qualificam a prática. Em cada uma das categorias, outras foram sendo identificadas e apresentadas para reflexão. Em síntese conclui-se que a construção teórica e os depoimentos dos docentes confirmam a proposição inicial e evidenciam que, a retomada dos projetos Institucionais e de cursos; a prática interdisciplinar, o Fórum Permanente da Pedagogia Universitária são possibilidades de qualificar a prática dos docentes. / This thesis, entitled “Graduate teaching: revealing knowledges of professors of the health teaching area at UNICRUZ”, deals with the role of the communitarian universities on the scientific and human development; on their collaboration with the production and dissemination of the knowledge produced and on the need to look for the qualification of the work developed by the professionals of the health area. Thus, the investigation problem is expressed as follows: Among the knowledges mobilized in the pedagogical practice of the professors of the health area, the ones that predominate/are evidenced and in which pedagogical situations their practice is qualified. In the thesis proposition, the professors of the Biomedicine, Nursery, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy and Nutrition courses are the subjects of the knowledge, and their practice is a production space and mobilization of knowledges. The approach is a research of qualitative nature through a case study. The option was to structure the thesis in two parts: the context of the teaching knowledges and the meaning of the knowledges in the institutional reality. Therefore, the two parts pass by the three big work axis: I university: its arising and contributions, trajectory and compromise; II – universitarian teaching: conceptions and meanings; III - teaching knowledges: sociability and challenges. Aiming to understand the interlacement of knowledges, the thesis is organized in four chapters. Ten professors, two of each of the courses under study, were the subjects that took part in the research and that answered the semi-structured questionnaire. The subjects were intentionally chosen, and the criterium used was to choose effective professors working for more than one year at the university and who also demonstrated interest in the study. After the synthesis and analysis of the questionnaires, five professors were selected for an interview, aiming to better understand some questionings.The knowledges mobilized during the pedagogical practice were defined as categories; the predominating/evidenced knowledges and the pedagogical situations that qualify the pedagogical practice. In each one of the categories, others were identified and were taken into account for reflection. In synthesis, it is concluded that the theoretical construction and the professors testimony confirm the initial proposition and put into evidence that the retaking of institutional projects and of courses; the interdisciplinary practice and the Permanent Universitarian Pedagogical Forum are possibilities to qualify the practice of the professors.

Esta tese apresenta a análise de um estudo de caso de tipo etnográfico realizado em uma escola da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Pelotas – RS. Objetiva acessar as características que identificam/diferenciam essa escola e a posicionam em relação ao cumprimento da sua função educacional. Investiga a temática "qualidade" sob os seguintes pressupostos: as escolas exercem diferentemente sua influência sobre o aprendizado e sobre as oportunidades educacionais; a “qualidade” no âmbito educacional não pode ser avaliada, estritamente, pelos resultados de provas ou exames de larga escala; as condições vividas pelos sujeitos no interior de uma escola trazem a marca política, dando a ela contornos finais cruzados e implicados com e por determinações e potencialidades muito amplas; a escola, como instituição social, pode respeitar o direito do sujeito de aprender a ser humano. Nesse sentido, desenvolveu-se a tese que afirma: a despeito da tendência de precarização e da perspectiva de fracasso que recaem sobre a educação pública, há escolas que podem produzir/traduzir relações que favoreçam o desenvolvimento de ações a partir das quais é possível constituir processos educativos inclusivos e de qualidade no âmbito educacional. O estudo teve como universo teórico, vertentes que têm-se ocupado da temática “escolarização”, associada à atenção aos designados “diferentes”, como é o caso da Pedagogia Institucional e da Pedagogia Dialógica. A investigação envolveu as seguintes ações: observação e elaboração de diário de campo, entrevistas e análise documental. Os conceitos e significados que incidiram sobre a experiência de investigação foram submetidos à análise temática, chegando a três grandes vias de condução e sistematização dos dados: a escola na vida, a escola em processo e a escola nas relações. O estudo analisou as regularidades e as singularidades das práticas pedagógicas e as negociações estabelecidas no contexto, além das evidências de políticas que sustentam a “esperada” qualidade educacional. / This thesis presents the analysis of an ethnographic case study carried out in a Municipal School in Pelotas – (RS- Brazil). It has in view to access the characteristics which identify/distinguish such school and position it as to the fulfillment of its educational function. It investigates the theme of “quality” under the following assumptions: schools wield influence over learning and over educational opportunities in different ways; “quality” in education can not be strictly assessed by the results of general achievement tests and exams; the conditions lived by subjects within a school bear a political imprint, with final contours crossed and implied with and by very broad determinations and potentialities; schools, as social institutions, can respect the right of the subject to learning to be human. In this sense, the thesis was developed on the assertion that despite a trend for precariousness as well as the perspective of failure which dooms public education, there are schools capable of producing/translating relations favorable to the development of processes that will allow the constitution of inclusive educational processes of quality. The study was theoretically framed by positions that have dealt with the problem of “schooling” associated to the attention to those assigned as “different”, such as the Institutional Pedagogy and the Dialogic Pedagogy. The investigation has involved observation and elaboration of field journal, interviews and document analysis. The concepts and meanings that presented themselves in the research experience were submitted to thematic analysis, attaining three large ways for the conduction and systematization of data: the school in life, the school in process and the school in relationships. The study analyzed the regularities and singularities of the pedagogical practices and the negotiations established in the context, as well as the evidence of policies that support the “sohoped- for” educational quality.