Quando dois mais dois são mais que quatro: sucesso de alunos de escola de periferia hoje acadêmicos da Licenciatura em Matemática da UFPEL

Abstract

This thesis, written for the Professional Graduate Program on the Teaching of Mathematics (PPGECM / FAE / UFPEL), describes the school life of four former students from the Elementary School Mário Meneghetti, located in the neighborhood Getulio Vargas in the suburb of Pelotas /RS, who are now college students taking a bachelor's teaching degree in Mathematics at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPEL). The research intends to present the successful educational outcomes of such students by analyzing their learning experiences in a public education environment considered to be less qualified and even violent. Their experiences were read in the light of Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory of Development, as well as Lahire's reasons for the unlikely school success of lower class students, Abramovay's ideas for school violence and Charlot's paradoxical success theoretical framework. This is a qualitative study carried out by means of semi-structured interviews used to know the story of those students' school life and admission in college. The results found showed that living and studying in a violent neighborhood did not influence negatively the students' dream of going to university. They also considered their public school teachers and family as the main protagonists of their academic achievement. The public school was acknowledged to be responsible for the learning that led them to higher education, more specifically to the teaching degree in Mathematics