As explicações em estudo de caso: alguns dados da cidade de Aquarela
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2009
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Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
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As explicações, não obstante tratar-se de uma actividade ainda na sombra, constituem hoje um fenómeno crescentemente globalizado, cujas dimensões económico- financeiras, políticas e pedagógicas se encontram ainda longe de uma análise e reflexão suficientemente sustentadas. Se o recurso por parte dos alunos ao apoio particular (familiares, colegas, amigos, ou mesmo professores) sempre constituiu uma realidade presente nos processos de aprendizagem, o desenvolvimento exponencial que o mercado das explicações atingiu nas últimas décadas infligiu-lhe contornos bem diferentes, com o “explicador doméstico” tradicional a ceder lugar à empresa, ao grupo económico e às variadíssimas situações de franchising que se multiplicam por milhares de centros espalhados por todo o mundo. Neste artigo, pretendemos apresentar alguns dados da investigação que temos vindo a desenvolver sobre o assunto, nomeadamente os resultados de questionários aplicados a alunos do 12º ano das escolas do ensino secundário de uma cidade portuguesa, a Cidade Aquarela. Problematizaremos, ainda, esta questão através das repercussões que o fenómeno introduz no quadro das políticas educativas e suas implicações nos resultados escolares dos alunos. Se, nos anos sessenta, Bourdieu e Passeron nos apresentaram os “herdeiros”, hoje, estaremos perante “novos herdeiros”, pois estes alunos, para além da detenção do tal capital cultural de que falavam os autores, usufruem, simultaneamente, de mais aprendizagens requeridas pela escola que oficialmente frequentam, através de estratégias privadas complementares que fazem valer como vantagem competitiva na concorrência com os seus colegas menos favorecidos pela dupla herança familiar.
Although private tutoring is an activity still in the shadows, it is today an increasingly globalized phenomenon, whose economical-financial, political and pedagogical dimensions are still faraway from a thorough analysis and reflection. If students resorting to tutoring (family members, classmates, friends, and even teachers) has always constituted a reality present in the learning process, the exponential development that the private tutoring market has known in the last decades has given it very different contours, with the traditional “domestic tutor” being replaced by firms, economical groups and several types of franchising situations that are multiplied by thousands of centres that can be found across the world. In this text we aim to present some data gathered in the research that we have been conducting on this matter, namely the results of questionnaires filled out by 12th year students attending the secondary schools located in a Portuguese city, which we have named Aquarela City. We will also analyse the repercussions that the phenomenon introduces into the field of educational policies and its implications in students’ school results. If, in the sixties, Bourdieu and Passeron introduced us to the “heirs”, today, we have before us the “new heirs”, as these students, besides possessing the cultural capital discussed by these authors, have, simultaneously, access to more of the learning that is required by the school that they officially attend, through complementary private strategies that they use as a competitive edge in the competition with classmates that are less favoured by this double family inheritance.
Although private tutoring is an activity still in the shadows, it is today an increasingly globalized phenomenon, whose economical-financial, political and pedagogical dimensions are still faraway from a thorough analysis and reflection. If students resorting to tutoring (family members, classmates, friends, and even teachers) has always constituted a reality present in the learning process, the exponential development that the private tutoring market has known in the last decades has given it very different contours, with the traditional “domestic tutor” being replaced by firms, economical groups and several types of franchising situations that are multiplied by thousands of centres that can be found across the world. In this text we aim to present some data gathered in the research that we have been conducting on this matter, namely the results of questionnaires filled out by 12th year students attending the secondary schools located in a Portuguese city, which we have named Aquarela City. We will also analyse the repercussions that the phenomenon introduces into the field of educational policies and its implications in students’ school results. If, in the sixties, Bourdieu and Passeron introduced us to the “heirs”, today, we have before us the “new heirs”, as these students, besides possessing the cultural capital discussed by these authors, have, simultaneously, access to more of the learning that is required by the school that they officially attend, through complementary private strategies that they use as a competitive edge in the competition with classmates that are less favoured by this double family inheritance.
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Revista Lusófona de Educação
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EDUCAÇÃO, ESTUDOS DE CASO, APOIO EDUCATIVO, ESCOLAS, EDUCATION, CASE STUDIES, EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT, SCHOOLS
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Costa , J A , Neto Mendes , A & Ventura , A 2009 , ' As explicações em estudo de caso: alguns dados da cidade de Aquarela ' , Revista Lusófona de Educação .