Abstract

SIMOES, Eduarda. Representações sociais da Escola rural de meados do século XX em Portugal . Aná. Psicológica [online]. 2007, vol.25, n.2, pp.211-228. ISSN 0870-8231.

The purpose of this paper is to understand and analyse the contents of the social representations about the rural school in the middle of the twentieth Century in Portugal, in the dimensions of "information" and "attitudes", produced by a group of persons born between 1926 and 1936 and who attended school in a village, in the municipality of Ferreira do Zêzere, not going beyond the four years of the elementary school. The research focuses a qualitative exploratory research, using as a conceptual and methodological framing the social representations theory, in particular the study of the school representation anchorage until the fourth decade of the twentieth Century, depending on the mental picture/ representation of the school of today and taking as a basis of analysis the discursive contents of this group of elderly people. In conclusion: these people, after selection, construction and organization of the information and attitude, built up their school social representations, that have been expressed in homogeneous and heterogeneous contents at information level, revealing different social insertions in terms of social identities. These aspects have been articulated with different ways of life, different ways of relationship with the school, and also due to the fact that this is a period that is far away from now in about half a century.

Keywords : Social representations; anchorage; school.

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