COERCION PRACTICES IN EDUCATION: WHAT THE TEACHERS SAY AND DO

Abstract

In the context of teacher formation the use of coercion is criticized, but in practice the teacher seems to make use of such strategies and ignore alternatives for interaction and teaching practices. The objective of this work was checking the correspondence between the description and the practice of coercion events in the student-teacher interaction with four Elementary-School female teachers in a public school. To do that, a combined methodology was used: questionnaire and direct observation. The results showed the occurrence of a level of non-correspondence between what they say and what they do in all participants. The conclusion points to the need, as shown by the literature, to focus on the analysis of the behaviors in relation to what is reported in the same reality.

Keywords

• Psicologia
• Educação
• Correspondência Verbal e Não-verbal
• Práticas Coercitivas