Experiências sociais e lógicas de ação política: etnografia da participação estudantil na escola pública

Abstract

This dissertation presents a study of both the range and the effectiveness of student participation in school. We have investigated the logics that found the political action of students in the participation channels instituted in the state public school. Two problematizations have been used as investigation paths: What is the range and the effectiveness of the decision processes in school participation channels? If, as the literature has shown, the functional channels that define participation in the school have been disrupted, then how have power relations been exercised (controls and hierarchies, whether apparent or diffuse, in that participation)?

These questions have led us to an ethnographic study of student participation in two countryside public schools in Rio Grande do Sul. Data collected have been interpreted from the theoretical perspective of Sociology of Experience, according to François Dubet, and our analytical tools have been the notions of social experience and logics of action. The material