Representações sociais dos alunos da rede pública de ensino do Distrito Federal sobre a Sociologia no ensino médio

Abstract

The present article emphasizes the instability of the Sociology presence in Brazilian high school and places the situation of the subject in Distrito Federal scope. Both the official documents and the teachers of the subject agree that it is a dynamic knowledge, as well as flexible and practical, that prepares the pupils for the entire exercise of their citizenship. However, the students’ opinion about the Sociology teaching is emphasized. In this sense, it is presented the result of a Master’s degree dissertation that focused students of the third year of high school, distributed in focal groups in Santa Maria and Asa Norte, in Brasília, Distrito Federal. The theory of the social representations served as an orientation to the theoretical and methodological development, in which Serge Moscovici and Willem Doise were the principal representatives. The latter developed a social perspective to the studies of social representations: the existence of a common content in the social representations of the positions, the existence of differences within that common content and the existence of an anchorage of the different positions.

Keywords

• Sociologia da Educação
• Ensino de Sociologia
• Representações Sociais.