FAMILY LITERACY AND ANALYSIS OF PERSONAL NETWORKS: RESEARCH-ACTION WITH POPULATION EDUCATION FUNDAMENTAL
Family literacy; Personal networks; Cultural capital; . Social capital; Action research
It highlights the need to understand demographically the aspects that surround education, more specifically literacy, of the population between the ages of 6 and 14. It outlines how an action research can perceive the literacy developed in the family environment through the analysis of social networks, which identifies agents with different intensities of cultural capital and social capital, responsible for the school success of students of the 5th year of elementary school of Municipal School José Horácio de Góis. It presents a theoretical support based on prominent studies which, point out the demographic transition as a possible benefit generator for the education system, expose a focus on the practices of the literacy family and on the debate about school failure, reveal the cultural capital and the social capital as propellants of the habitus of studying, and show how the methodology of social network analysis can observe the are exchange actions produced by the individuals of a certain group. To do so, it uses the method focused on the personal networks with the use of questionnaires and relational matrices, these are aided by the name generator and the name interpreters, instruments that allow data production and processing of the variables in the software: Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, Ucinet and NetDraw. In ascertaining the sociodemographic data, as well as the structure and the composition of student networks, the results indicate that students of the same context and with similar characteristics have singularities that differentiate them in relational practices and interfere in the way in which they develop family literacy. Thus, the restrictions and contributions to the learning of reading and writing, and consequently to the school performance, are motivated according to the influences exerted by the actors that compose the students' networks. In the end, it considers that action-research projects aimed at family literacy, and based on the analysis of personal networks, produce meaningful knowledge that can overcome the barriers of school failure, improve indicators and broaden educational projections.