Indisciplina de alunos: jogos de resistência na escola municipal professor Eurico Silva Uberlândia-MG

Abstract

The objective of this treatise is to study student insubordination, starting with research conducted at the Escola Municipal Professor Eurico Silva ( Professor Eurico Silva Municipal School ) in Uberlândia, MG. School registers, kept during the school year 2001, were used as referential sources, and, citations referring to disciplinary aspects were used from these. Taking into consideration the conditions created in terms of controlling and observing school time and space, efforts were made to build a constructive analysis of conduct described as indisciplinary to which can be ascribed various meanings, depending on from where they came and who interpreted them. School registers are documents that mark , label , group and classify the student. It is noted that the Regime establishes a series of normative rules which, in a universalistic perspective, are already applied by workers, teachers in the school and the general community as well. Nevertheless, while being a normative document, it is unable to rationalize the experiences and school conflicts happening daily in the classroom, where opposing sides are formed amid tense and conflicting relationships which scar the lives of those involved. So, a reflexive analysis has been created in the light of how the teachers view what is termed as indiscipline (lack of discipline) among the students. It is argued that the meaning, as applied by the teachers, is a result of the clash, the confrontation between them and their students and can be understood as a speech with which the teachers identify themselves. But, on the other hand, they reveal their weaknesses, doubts and insecurity in the face of problems in which they themselves are unable to reflect systematically, for they base themselves on pre-conceived representative models. However, if considered from the students point of view, indiscipline can be understood as a form of resistance, which suggests weakness in the education model proposed, where scrutinizing norms neglect the subjective, emotional and sensitive aspects of each human being who is subjected to the educational process.