Famílias de meios populares e suas concepções sobre escola

Abstract

This work a imedto analyze how conceptions that families of popular backgrounds have about school and some forms off a mily action in the school life of children. And as specified objectives: elaborate the socioeconomic profile and organize the parents of three families analyzed; investigate what families mean by school and characterize as actions exercised by families in relation to school activities. The research is the oretically based on Oliveira and Marinho (2010); Dessen and Poland (2005, 2007); Zago (2012); Nogueira (2015) and Silva (2005). As the methodology considers a qualitative perspective and through the interview, a single research instrument used, data from three families of popular backgrounds weregiven. The children and children were students from municipal schools in the Recife Metropolitan Region. The first family consists of father, mother, grandmother and two children. The second family consists of mother and five children. And the third family contains father, mother and two children. The results pointed the students of the families to guarantee the school development of the children, through the accompaniment in the school as well as at home, believing that the school is the best place for the grow thand the learning. Also shown as difficulties that families had in their school career, this is also the reason for the investment in the education of children, allowing a future change in the reality of these families. The relevance of these families' understanding of school reverberates in their attitudes without investmentand school attendance of children, and also identifies the presence of women as the main responsible for the accompaniment and care with the education of sons and daughters. Throughthestudyoffamilieslikethese, it ispossibletounderstandtheimportanceofthefamily-schoolrelationship in building a more effectiveeducationandtheinfluenceonthelivesofthesechildren.