Os perfis da indisciplina: caso dos alunos da Escola Primária Completa das Mahotas – Cidade de Maputo, 2010

Abstract

This research seeks to analyze the practice of violence at school and its relationship with the cultural profile of students' families. Due to the need to limit our field of study, the research was carried out in the city of Maputo, precisely in the Escola Primária Complete das Mahotas, in particular, in the classes of the third cycle (6th and 7th classes) of basic education in the evening course. We use Pierre Bourdieu's theory of habitus and the concept of cultural capital as a basis. We are concerned to know to what extent the practice of school violence by students may or may not be linked to the volume of cultural capital of their families. For this, we used a sample of 20 families corresponding to 20 students considered undisciplined, in a total of 563 students enrolled in the school, the latter being the population universe of the present study. The selection was done intentionally. The families that made up our sample were submitted to semi-structured interviews that aimed to obtain information about their educational background, profession, income, cultural habits and other issues related to family life. For data collection, we favored semi-structured interviews. From the research, it was possible to verify that the violent behavior of students at school is a reflection of the ineffectiveness of families in guiding and transmitting values ​​and models of social conduct where the cultural profile of students' families influences the behavior of their students