El alumno como un todo y sus aprendizajes: notas etnográficas desde la educación de jóvenes y adultos

Abstract

This papper deals with the notion of student as a totality that is inscribed: materially, subjectively and corporately in the processes of schooling, generating effects in the modes of learning of each subject. In a way, the student category serves to think about the production of a subject of learning from school regulations. The context of problematization of the text refers to the data collected through an ethnography made with the students of the Educação de Jovens e Adultos do Colégio de Aplicação, linked to the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Therefore, participant observation and field diary as the main methodological devices to investigate the notion of students in their practical dimension. In particular, it aims to stress the different ways in which the idea of student is present in the experience of the school experience. The term student, then, comes to be considered as an abstract concept and plastic that operates in the construction and transformation of subjectivities since school institution. Thus, the notion of student has different designs from different supports, physical or symbolic, practical or conceptual. But they produce ways of recognizing and experiencing school experiences, forming bonds and inhabiting school. Therefore, the student idea is constituted in different fields of practice within the school and by this angle elaborates a powerful reflection on the student condition and its different forms of subjectivation. Finally, the student dimension, in its juxtapositions of conceptual and practical layers, serves the purpose of situating and circumventing the alterities represented and synthesized by the students.