(1449) EDUCATIONAL SOCIAL LIFE ENVIRONMENTS OF BASIC EDUCATION IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF NATALRN/ BRAZIL: 2000 - 2010

摘要

In the metropolitan area of Natal, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil, are reproduced, albeitwith their own characteristics and dimensions, the problems and challenges that are typical to all largeurban agglomerations in the country. Education and basic education are one of them. Themetropolitan problematic is, therefore, extensive and complex and covers the new generation ofBrazilian metropolises. Thus, this study shares the current concern of the academic community andofficial agencies, about a common theme, that is, education understood as one of the essential forcesfor development within the framework of participative action of the individuals who are directlyconcerned by it - teachers, researchers, parents and official agencies. In this sense the analyticaleffort is focused on basic education, whose results have the aim of contributing to the improvement ofthe quality of basic education leading to better school performance.In this context, this study identifies the inequalities that exist in the environments where theeducational social life of basic education students of the state schools of the municipalities from themetropolitan area of Natal, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, takes place.The theoretical reference comes from Pierre Bourdieu's habitus concept, addressing the schoolenvironment as a space where the educational social life of the students takes place and as a spaceable to generate in the students a disposition to study.In this sense, through a set of variables related to the environments of the educational social life andgrouped under four dimensions (context, institutional, teaching-learning and educational), the aim ofthis article is to perform a comparative analysis between the years 2000 and 2010 to show, throughthe construction of typologies, the inequalities that exist in the environments where the educationalsocial life of the students of the state schools of the municipalities of the metropolitan area of Natal, inthe state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, takes place.School census data were used from the years 2000 and 2010 for obtaining the variables relating to theschool environments. We used the method Grade of Membership - GoM to operationalize thetypologies that characterise those inequalities. The results are presented for the schools of each oneof the municipalities of the metropolitan area of Natal showing three typologies that characterise theinequalities of the environments where the educational social life of the students takes place: i)adverse environment; ii) environment with deficits; iii) good environment. Moreover, these resultswould show the quality of the environment of the schools analysed to enable a better approach to theproblems associated with the existing inequalities, allowing a broader view, according to their needsand deficiencies, given that they would be working to create a disposition to study in the students.