Democracia x meritocracia: influências e impactos no conhecimento escolar

Abstract

This dissertation has as central theme the school knowledge analysis and its relevance as a possible enabler of the democratic nature of the education. Besides of analyze the school knowledge, as central in the curriculum, it aimed to discuss its democratic perspective. So, this work uses important authors of the field of the curriculum studies (SILVA, 2007; MOREIRA, CANDAU, 2008; PACHECO, 2013) to support the analysis. First of all, this study was developed through a bibliographic research, to then, dwell on the opinions of twenty working teachers in the Elementary School of the public schools in the city of Erechim – Rio Grande do Sul. The survey, anonymous, was based on the research hypothesis and tried to contrast the teachers’ knowledge with the bibliographic referential searched. In the face of the discussant of the teachers’ writing, it was possible to realize that these professionals also defend the importance of the school knowledge being the central in the curriculum. Nonetheless, they comprehend the need of considerate the contexts and the cultures, however not reducing their practice to what is already the student knowledge. To finish the study, in the face of the demands of the Professional Master in Education of the composition of a product, it is presented questioning, arguments and possibilities to raise a continuing education of the teachers.