TEACHING KNOWLEDGE: AN ANALYSIS OF SOCIOLOGY TEACHING-LEARNING IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS IN NATAL/RN
Teacher; Sociology in High School; Curriculum; Discourse of the Collective Subject.
Sociology arrived in Brazil in the middle of 1924 and 1925, having its first chair (professorial chair), in the Normal Schools as an auxiliary discipline of Pedagogy. It was institutionalized in 1930 in the Brazilian academic environment with the creation of the Free School of Sociology and Politics of São Paulo in 1933. From then on the discipline of Sociology has been facing several difficulties to be part of the curriculum of High School. With the changes and reforms through which the Brazilian political scene has passed through history, to the discipline of Sociology in the educational space, now it is compulsory, sometimes it is optional, which ends up influencing the teaching in the elementary schools in our country. Given this context, we seek to make an analysis of the teaching learning of Sociology in High School in Natal / RN. We had as subjects subjects of this research the teachers who teach the discipline of Sociology in public and private schools of the High School in the city of Natal. For this study, we applied a qualitative-quantitative questionnaire with structured questions and open questions. For the analysis of the interviews, the Collective Subject Discourse (DSC) technique, proposed by Lefevre & Lefevre (2010), was used through the QualiQuantsoft program. The results obtained demonstrate the realities faced by Sociology professors, both in public schools and private high schools. Therefore, we are faced with situations that have been occurring throughout the history of the Social Sciences and that remain the same, for example, teachers from other disciplines teaching classes in Sociology in a superficial way, the struggle for the valorization and permanence of the discipline in the curriculum of Teaching And the regression that Sociology is once again passing in the educational political scenario, becoming an optional discipline according to provisional measure 746/2016. Therefore, the struggle of Sociology to remain in the curriculum of high schools remains through its licensed teachers who seek recognition through the teaching-learning of the discipline.