The school in the students view of young and adults education

Abstract

Based on the value and importance that has been given to prior knowledge, prior to formal education, and the narratives of students in recent decades, this paper presents a brief analysis of narratives collected from patrons of Young and Adult Education on northern cities of Paraná, in an attempt to identify the ideas, concepts and representations that they have about the school and the school space considered ideal as well as its purpose, the social relations that are established and the public for which the educational institution is intended. Work, therefore, with narratives of students as a kind of language, writing, constructed through memory and also personal constructions and reconstructions that might provide evidence of what they think and what kinds of interpretation have. We understand the main characteristic of the narrative, its constructive effort, in that thoughts, interpretations and social representations that are present in the cognitive structure of the subject, should be systematized and ordered, in writing that make sense and that can present certain world view. These narratives, categories were created from commonalities and divided by representations about the school, the school aims and relationships between students and teachers.