Aline Cristine Ferreira Braga do Carmo

REFERENCE: CARMO, Aline Cristine Ferreira Braga Do. A INFÂNCIA PERMEADA PELO CONSUMISMO E OS DESAFIOS AO TRABALHO DOCENTE. 2015. 195 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2015.

 

AUTHOR: WILLIAM FERREIRA DA SILVA
TITLE: CHILDHOOD PERMEATED BY CONSUMISM AND CHALLENGES OF TEACHING WORK (A INFÂNCIA PERMEADA PELO CONSUMISMO E OS DESAFIOS AO TRABALHO DOCENTE)
ADVISOR: Prof. Dr. Laís Leni Oliveira Lima
CONCENTRATION AREA: Education
RESEARCH LINE: Educational Policies, Management and Teacher Training
DEFENSE DATE: 09/04/2015

 

ABSTRACT:
The present work “Childhood permeated by consumism and challenges of teaching work”, developed in the Education Postgraduate Program UFG - Jataí in the Educational Policies, Management and Teacher Training research line, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Laís Leni Oliveira Lima, seeks to unveil the contradictions surrounding education, the teacher the childhood and the contemporary child. For this analysis, we start from the investigation of the historical, political, economic and social totality that surrounds the Brazilian Early Childhood Education (EI) and the historical subjects that are inserted in it, in order to understand how the capital entered the school walls. It fetishized childhood, precarious teacher education and misread the school role as a space for knowledge acquisition. It became necessary to understand the dynamics of today's society, Marxian conceptions of labor, the process of alienation and consumerism. In this sense, the expectations that permeate the research approach the understanding of the society of capital and how it has incorporated childhood, children and education. Therefore, it was necessary to analyze the relationship between the social construction of childhood started in the seventeenth century and the practice of child consumerism in the 21st century, seeking to understand being a child and the work directed to this stage of human development today. Covering the paths that were built by the logic of capital to transform children into demanding consumers, is essential to understand the dynamics that are effective in Brazilian EI schools in contemporary times, because the practice of exacerbated consumption, in its different developments, changed the conceptions of humanity and consequently of childhood and education, as it promoted an intense process of alienation from the earliest years of life. The aim is to investigate the relationship between education and consumption of children belonging to hegemonic classes and attending private education institutions in Rio Verde-GO city, in order to think about how these classes influence the way of being and subordinate classes. The methodological approach is effected by the bias of historical-dialectical materialism and historical-critical theory, to understand the dynamics of EI we started from an analysis that united qualitative and quantitative in the process of analysis of semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. The process of “naturalization” of consumption, begun with the advent of liberal bourgeois society and currently promoted by neoliberal society, has made this practice enter the school walls, becoming a challenge to the teaching work of IS teachers and to implementation of the teaching and learning process, which demands a teaching work that transcends the alienating limitations promoted by the society of Capital. The work is based on the theoretical contributions of Aries (1981), Marx (1996; 2007; 2009 and 2013), Mézáros (2006; 2008; 2011), Vygotsky (2007; 2009; 2014a; 2014b), Gramsci (1979) and Saviani (1979). 2000; 2007; 2012; 2013), Arce (2001; 2004; 2005; 2007) in order to understand the process of human formation and the overcoming of the contradictions of the capital society.

 

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