Interações sociais entre alunos do 6º ano do ensino fundamental e o processo de aprendizagem escolar

Abstract

This piece of work has comprised the theme of social interactions between students and the learning process in a school under the perspective of the Constructivist Sociocultural approach. It has consisted in a qualitative-based research done with eighteen students 6th Grade on fundamental level at a Manaus/AM state-owned school. Its general objective was to analyze the relations between the students´ social interactions and the learning process and the specific goals were identify social interactions among the students within the classroom environment and investigate the meanings and senses attributed to the learning process inside the school by students. The contributions of Valsiner have allowed us to have a wide, complex and critical look onto the learning processes and the human development springing up from the interaction between pairs inside a school as well as an outlining of an educational approach supported in the dialogue prospect and cooperation in classroom. The material analyzed resulted from semi-structured audio-recorded interviews and participant observation on field diary studies. The results confirmed that the school and family are the pillars in the process of Subjectivity constitution and citizenship formation, as well as they indicated that the pedagogical practices performed by most teachers must be thought over again and transformed by acknowledging the social interactions among students inside the classroom, mainly in the group activities as an enforceable and effective strategy aiming at building up learning from the school environment and the promoting human development, besides the possible prospects of a future in the sense of employability and quality of life. It was concluded that studying the between pairs social interaction and the learning process in the school environment has proved intriguing as a challenge the Educational and School Psychology in regards to the educational practices focusing onto the individual as a being in regards with his/her peers and inserted in a historical and cultural context, where transforms the environment and him/her dialectically by performance an active role in the constitution of being, thinking and acting about the world.