Família na escola: olhando fotografias, lendo textos culturais

Abstract

Having as reference the Cultural Studies in a post-structuralist perspective and approaching Foucault's thinking, the present dissertation, “Family at school: looking at pictures, reading cultural texts”, aims at questioning the way the set of statements that circulate on the photographs, which were taken at the school space, produces discourses that create meanings for family at school and how it circulates on the school program. From the 50 photographs that were made available by the Headmaster's office, 10 met the criteria, which were the recurrent statements about family at school, and were chosen to be part of the research corpus. The pictures were taken by the teachers of a public school located in Esteio, a small town in Rio Grande do Sul, and record the participation of a large number of families in activities that were organized by the school. The activities, such as lectures on themes that had been previously appointed both by the families and the school, crafts and cooking workshops, field trips wi