A escola como “mercado de trocas” extra-pedagógicas: um estudo sobre processos de construção de sucesso numa escola na cidade de Maputo

Abstract

School success has been studied from the point of view of what is lacking to achieve it, and from from a formal perspective. This study analyzes building processes of school success based on ethnographic data collected at a secondary school in the city of Maputo. O even allows problematizing the formal view of school success that dominates in literature and that guides the logic of the Ministry of Education (MINED), inherited from a perspective positivist. In this literature, school success is thought from the binomial teaching - learning process, where the student is expected to learn what is taught and, in this way, reach the objectives and acquire the competences defined by the educational program or school, checking passage. If, on the one hand, this logic of school success allows us to understand the contexts researched by such authors and the logic underlying the Ministry of Education (MINED), on the other hand, it tells us little about how school success is built in other contexts. So that this study, contrary to formal logic, and based on a theoretical orientation constructionist and interactionist reveals that school success is negotiated by students, teachers and guardians in everyday school life. Such negotiations involve exchange of sexual favors, exchange of alcohol, exchange of alcoholic beverages, exchange of refills of mobile phone among other favors. In this context, it is perceived that the school exists as a Extra-pedagogical “exchange market”, where the formal logic coexists with the logic of successful everyday construction. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)