Estudo das interações sociais entre professores e alunos no ensino superior

Abstract

The status in which does occur the teaching-learning process must be analyzed both in pedagogical and psychological aspects in order to comprehend the causes associated to the implied difficulties in this process which must be considered when focusing researches and assessment of social interactions happening into classroom. The research also addresses the thematic of social interactions taking place in the higher education that is understood in this study as the interaction between teachers and students in the context of undergraduate classrooms in a course of pedagogy of a private university located in the municipality of Manaus, State of Amazonas, Brazil. As for decipher the genesis of the learning process in a formal setting it is necessary to interpret the interactive, communicative and metacommunicative processes occurring at different times and spaces where the subjects are found. It is intended then, to make an analysis in relation to the quality of social interactions drawn in the context of the higher education in Manaus. For such a task, the present study uses a focal group technique in order to achieve the proposed objectives. Based on Vygotsky socio-historical approach, this study examines how the interactive process act as mobilizers of the construction of knowledge based on convergent as well as divergent interactions, especially in talks related to the objectives and progress of educational activities. It is a unique problem, due to the scarcity of such studies, particularly in Brazil, where in general, educational research is focused on the elementary school which causes concern to some academics that in their majority have technician skills, lacking, consequently, great knowledge on the matter of the human interactions taking place inside classroom.