ZAPPING STUDENT AND TEACHERS' WORK

a case study

Abstract

The question of student dispersion in the classroom has been provoking reflection in the educational field, being frequently identified as a characteristic of the new generations, conditioned as they are by the speed of our times. The case study referred in this article allows questioning that interpretation, indicating that student dispersion may also be related to teachers’ work which includes the conditions the school offers. In this article, those questions are developed, after analyzing the interaction patterns identified in the classes observed. As basic theoretical interlocutions, Antonio Flávio Moreira, Elizabeth Ellsworth, Elizabeth Macedo and Vera Candau when problematizing the notion of dialogue in the educational field, and François Dubet, to consider questions of authority in the contemporary school, shown to be related to the problems focused.