SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF PEDAGOGUES ON THE LACK OF DISCIPLINE OF ADOLESCENTS IN SCHOOL

Abstract

Current analysis identifies pedagogues´ social representations on the lack of discipline in adolescence. The Theory of Social Representations was employed as a theoretical and methodological foregrounding. It investigates how reference systems used to classify people and groups are formed and function to interpret day-to-day events. Ten pedagogues from a town in the north-western region of the state of Paraná participated in current quality and quantity research. The following tools were employed for data collection: a) Social and Demography Questionnaire and b) Half-Structured Interview. Categories of analysis were prepared for the analysis of data. Results show that pedagogues´ social representations on lack of discipline during adolescence are close to the idea that naturalizes the behavior of the individual. The above occurs because one´s idea of what is an adolescent reveals traces with no true historical and solid basis on the concept. Results show that the pedagogues´ social representations on the lack of discipline in adolescence focuses on a superficial idea of what would be ‘the adolescent’ and mainly what is the generating factor of indiscipline. At specific moments, the pedagogues, unaware, naturalized the actions of adolescents in their school context.