Interpretation of educational statistics: the space of symbolical disputes

Abstract

Starting from the analisys of some exemplary texts related to some concurrent means, from which the interpretation of Brazilian educational statistics were produced in the beginning of the 1940’s, we sought to explicitly express that the understanding of the quantitative information is not an objective consequence of the existence of accurate and correct data. It is rather the object of the symbolical dispute among the professionals involved in the production, analisys and divulgation of the referred information aiming to impose a legitimate interpretation of these data.

Keywords

• Estatísticas Educacionais
• Discurso sobre Educação
• Poder Simbólico
• Evasão Escolar
• Repetência