A relação família-escola na percepção da gestão escolar: entre estratégias e negociações para a convivência

Abstract

The aim of this research is to contribute to the studies of the family-school relationship focused on the school management, bringing as an agent of this task its managers and their abilities to mobilize resources of practical sense to face the daily conflicts and tensions of a school located in the vulnerable territory. Armed with a kind of “spontaneous” sociological insight, managers create strategies to make families aware of the school's needs. This paper analyses two of these strategies: a) the use of a pedagogy of emotional control which involves counseling and subtle demonstrations of respect and consideration for students and their families and b) the invocation of religiously oriented discourses to resolve institutional conflicts, especially the disciplinary ones. The methodology that was used includes field observation over fifteen months and seven semi-structured interviews with school principals and pedagogical coordinators. The result of this research is that the adopted strategies, although not sufficient to resolve the dissonances between school and domestic orders, bring to light less explicit and less studied aspects of the relationship between school and families, and in this regard, help to understand how this relationship is built in everyday life.