From the invisible to the insensitive at school: trajectories of bitterness and suffering of voiceless students

Abstract

The article aims to study the position that students occupy within the school in the perceptions of their teachers. Through twelve interviews carried out with educators who teach at Escola Municipal Expedicionario Aquino de Araújo, an institution located in the municipality of Duque de Caxias, in Baixada Fluminense, we sought to understand the different readings that this professional category carried out on their students. We raise the hypothesis that the discourse regarding student failure at school is based on pedagogical prerogatives and forget to investigate the behavioral natures of students in their social origins. The study seeks to give a voice to these teachers, forgotten and silenced in the face of a job marked by precariousness and constant aggression suffered. As a listening exercise, in the statements of the deponents it became possible to bring up issues such as: school violence, the family and school relationship, and finally, the position occupied by teaching at work.