A escola como um lugar de encontro: um estudo sobre entendimento do conceito de interacção entre professor – aluno e professor – professor, o caso da Escola Secundária Guaza Muthini

Abstract

The present work reflects the understanding of the concept of interaction between teacher - student and teacher - teacher, in the secondary school Guaza Muthini, Maputo Province, specifically in the District of Marracuene. This issue is discussed in a theoretical interactionist perspective. This perspective understands interaction as a process mediated by the symbolic character of social action, and the meaning of things is derived from the social interaction that individuals establish with others in a constant process of activities in which people share symbols, feelings and representations about a phenomenon. For data collection, fieldwork was carried out, where it was possible to observe and interact with teachers and students, including attending classes. From the data collected based on direct observation, non-right observation, conversations or semi-structured interviews and memorization techniques, with the target group, teachers and students, from Guaza Muthini secondary school, Marracuene District, from May 2014 to May 2015, where the logic of understanding interaction is made through a pedagogical process, a “crossing” of different knowledge was made between teacher and student. After collecting the data in the field, the results obtained in this ethnographic research allowed us to conclude that: teachers and students structure their relationships based on their actions in the school space; responsibility roles are assigned, which become full of meaning for each individual; however, the verbal and non-verbal interactive dynamics of social actors are permeated with symbolic exchanges that go beyond the school space.