Família-escola: a participação masculina - a compreensão dos homens pais ou responsáveis sobre sua atuação na escolarização dos filhos e participação na escola

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Nivia Caratin
• Orientador(a): Szymanski, Heloisa
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Educação: Psicologia da Educação
• Departamento: Psicologia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Participação paterna; Relação família-escola; Classes populares e a educação; Paulo Freire; Educacao > Participacao dos pais; Lar e escola; Pais e professores
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Father participation; Relationship between family and school; Lower classes and education; Paulo Freire
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO::FUNDAMENTOS DA EDUCACAO::PSICOLOGIA EDUCACIONAL
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/16332

The objective of this work is to study how fathers or other responsible male peer perceive their participation in the schooling of their children and in the activities promoted by the school. The context in case is a school situated at a poor peripheral neighborhood of São Paulo. The theoretical basis are Paulo Freire's dialogical approach and Daniel Thin and Bernard Lahire's contribution on the relationship between low income families and school. This work also includes a literature review on themes such as 'Family as a social and historic phenomenon', 'The relationship between school and family', and 'The role of the father in the relationship between school and family'. Reflective interviews, as proposed by Szymanski, were done with 11 fathers or responsible male peer, in order to produce qualitative data. These were analyzed through hermeneutic method. After close readings of the interviews' transcriptions, units of meaning were identified and then regrouped into 'constellations', from which some themes were brought up for discussion. The themes are the following: 'The hardships of bringing the fathers to the interviews', the collecting data process being relevant data as well; 'The explanations fathers give for their low participation', their dissatisfaction with the way the school solves problems, not having themselves spare time due to excessive and irregular work hours, and several kinds of inhibitions; 'The gender issue', the sexist mentality does not recognize the different responsibilities between mother and father as being cultural, but as 'natural'; 'The inhibition', strongly associated with low selfesteem or to their social identity; 'The school director's key-role', his capacity to mobilize the community. The conclusion is that the feeling of dissatisfaction brought up in the relationship between school and father turns into a vicious cycle and becomes a structural problem. The teacher has a hard time managing difficult classes, he or she calls upon the father to deal with his child's behavior. The way the father does it is unsatisfactory for the teacher, who complains again. The father reprimands his child, who ends up with an even lower self-esteem. There is a contradiction inherent to some people working at the school: on the one hand, they complain on the father's low participation, on the other hand, they push him away through humiliation, by putting themselves in a dominant position and by revealing a preference for the mother's presence. Dealing with this issue cannot follow exclusively neither the schools logic, nor the teacher's expectations. Dialectic polarities are in place, therefore, the Paulo Freire's dialogical approach seems to be the most adequate. In this approach, contradictions and obstacles are dealt through dialog, being expressed, reflected upon and discussed in order to build a solution collectively. Key-words: dialogic approach, Father participation, Relationship between family and school, Lower classes and education, Paulo Freire