Prototypical Analysis of Regular Class Teachers About The Resource Room
Prototypical Analysis of Regular Class Teachers About The Resource Room
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
ABSTRACT
This research is an integral part of the Professional Master's Degree in Science and
Health Teaching, of a Higher Education Institution in the State of Rio de Janeiro, and
aims to identify the main cognems of Basic Education teachers, of a public school in
the Baixada Fluminense region, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, about the
Multifunctional Resource Room. To the group, a Test of Free Evocation of Words
was applied from the inducing term “resource room” and the analysis was performed
by the Evocation 2000 software. Moscovici's Theory of Social Representations
(1961) was the main theoretical contribution of the research. In this way, we sought
to detect possible beliefs that regular class teachers develop about the resource
room of the school unit where they work in an attempt to value the knowledge and
opinions of these professionals in relation to Specialized Educational Assistance
(AEE)[3] and to think of possible strategies that can contribute to collaborative work
between regular class teachers and resource room teachers. As a result, the
centrality of representation reveals that 'love' is the gear for the space to function.
On the other hand, the periphery reveals the character of help and zeal in assisting
students with special needs.
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INTRODUCTION
With regard to the performance of teachers in special education, Oliveira and Prieto
(2020) warn us about an adequate pedagogical proposal for special education in
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DEVELOPMENT
The school, the research locus, is located in the municipality of Magé, in the Baixada
Fluminense region, 62 km from the capital of Rio de Janeiro (Figure 1). It works in
two shifts (morning and afternoon) and serves the early years of elementary school.
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Figure 1. Geographic location of the municipalities that make up the Baixada Fluminense Region, RJ
Until now, the School has 303 students enrolled, of which 25 (8.25%) are considered
a target audience for Special Education, assisted after school hours by the
Multifunctional Resource Room service.
The social group chosen for carrying out this research is composed of 10 Elementary
School I teachers, with a mean age of 35.6 years (Pad Dev = 7.4) and an average
teaching time of 10.8 years ( Pad Dev = 5.35), revealing to be a homogeneous group
and that, therefore, it has already overcome the phase of discovery and survival of
the beginning of the teaching career (HUBERMAN, 2000).
METHODOLOGICAL COURSE
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Thus, we asked the teachers of the regular classes to list the first five words that
came to mind, related to the inducing term 'resource room', in a time of five minutes.
The promptly evoked responses were analyzed and treated by software entitled
Evocation 2000® (VERGÈS; SCANO and JUNIQUE, 2002) developed in France by
Pierre Vergès; Scano and Junique (2002) (Fig. 2). This software makes it possible
to identify “the possible elements of the central nucleus through the frequency (F)
with which the word was enunciated by the subjects and the average order of
evocation (OME)[6]” (ALVES-MAZZOTTI, 2007, p. 299).
Figure 2- Initial screen of the Evocation 2000 software with the 16 programs
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Among the 16 programs, only five were used in the development of this research,
they are: LEXIQUE, whose function is to isolate the lexical units of the file; TRIEVOC,
which screens evocations; NETTOIE, which eliminates possible typing errors; the
RANGMOT, which provides the frequency and order of evocation and, finally, the
RANGFRQ, which organizes the elements that will make up the Central Core and
the peripheral system of the prototypical analysis in a four-box frame (GONZAGA,
2020).
Therefore, from the combination of the frequency and the average order of evocation
of the words carried out by the software, we obtained their distribution in a diagram
with two orthogonal axes, composing a table of four houses and that can be
understood in Figure 3.
Figure 3- Diagram with the disposition of the Central and Peripheral Nuclei, according to the
Frequency of Words (F) and the Average Order of Evocations (OME)
In the figure: NC: Central Nucleus; NPL: Peripheral Boundary Nucleus; NPI: Intermediate Peripheral
Core; NPE: Outer Peripheral Core. Source: Velloso (2009).
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The evocations that will compose the upper left quadrant (NC) will constitute the
words that were most evoked and with high prevalence (cited in the first orders).
According to Sá (2002), these evocations would have greater importance in the
subjects' cognitive scheme and, therefore, possible to represent the object of study.
The central nucleus is responsible for giving meaning and organization to the
representation, being strongly linked to the group's memory. The periphery, on the
other hand, is connected to the daily life and experiences of individuals (ABRIC,
2000).
This theory also considers the existence of the so-called 'peripheral system', which
shelters the differences in perception between the individuals involved in the
research, supporting the heterogeneity of the group and accommodating the
contradictions brought about by the more immediate context. Therefore, its basic
function is to allow the adaptation to the concrete reality, allowing the differentiation
of the content and protecting the Central Nucleus (SÁ, 1998).
RESULTS
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students assisted by the Specialized Educational Service (AEE), to list five words
associated with the inducing term 'Resource Room' (Chart 1).
Table 1 - Analysis of the Central Nucleus to the inducing term 'Resource Room' among teachers of
regular classes at the Municipal Department of Education, Magé, RJ
In the table: f is the simple evocation frequency; The median of the Frequency of Evocations is
equal to 3 (three). The average Average Order of Evocations (OME) is equal to 2.5. Evocations with
a frequency of less than 2 (two) were disregarded. In the table, 'Força' is associated with
prevalence in evocation, where the word cited in the first position has greater force (equal to one)
than the word cited in the second position (strength equal to two) and so on. Therefore, the smaller
the OME value, the greater the evocation strength. Source: survey data (2023).
The Central Nucleus (upper left quadrant - Chart 1) seems to represent, by the
regular class teachers, the 'resource room' as a 'help' space, a post that needs to
promote the necessary 'adaptation' with 'love'. In this context, the teachers seem to
believe that the resource room functions as a support space and that, for this
purpose, it needs to be adapted.
The 'love' as an essential element in this support offered to students assisted by the
resource room calls our attention. Judith Perez (2017, p. 106), in her thesis about
the social representations of teaching work with teachers in the early years of basic
education, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, identifies the presence of a “discourse about
teaching work that affirms the need to 'apply' or 'have' love for the profession, since
the student deserves it, needs affection”.
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Several studies will relate this 'love' to the process of feminization of teaching itself,
that is, a feeling specific to the female gender that is put into practice in pedagogical
activity (CAMPOS, 2008; SILVA; SCHERER; DAL'IGNA, 2019; VIEIRA, 2022).
With regard to adaptation, Silva (2022, p. 3) states that the school environment,
being a wide and diverse space, should be able to adapt to individual needs and
reiterates that the main purpose of building classrooms with multifunctional
resources is to employ “various methodological resources and techniques capable
of providing assistance to the target audience of special education so that they can
develop indistinctly within regular education”.
In the upper quadrant to the right of Table 1, Peripheral Boundary Nucleus, the
cognem 'care' appears and, because it was much mentioned, even late, it is possible
that, by inference, it will become part of the Central Nucleus. In this regard, it seems
that the teachers in this research see this space as a time to be considerate of others,
to feel and experience the needs of others (HOLLANDA, 2011).
However, we agree with Matsukura; Lins; Squassoni (2021, p. 722), when they state
that care for students assisted by the AEE should be constructed based on the
principle of intersectoriality, that is, “intersectoral articulations between school
professionals and those from other sectors, such as health and assistance Social".
Therefore, it is not exclusively the role of those who work in the multifunctional
resource room.
In the lower left quadrant of Chart 1, Intermediate Peripheral Nucleus, we have the
evocations that were cited as a priority, but with low frequency. This means that, for
some teachers, 'partnership' and 'respect' are very important in the functioning of the
space. In this sense, for this small group, there seems to be an understanding of the
importance of the intersectionality mentioned above and that 'respect' can be
associated with the understanding of the peculiarities and life history of each student
(DANTAS; CORTÊS, 2016).
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In the periphery itself (lower quadrant on the right – Chart 1), the pressures
fortuitously imposed by the reality of the group are expressed. According to Flament
(2001), the periphery of a social representation, precisely because of this
characteristic of eventuality, “is considered a bumper between reality and a central
nucleus that does not change easily” (emphasis added).
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
This exploratory research brings us some important notes, namely: the Central
Nucleus about the inducing term 'resource room', by teachers of regular classes,
revealing a possible belief of a space where 'love' is the gear for functioning. This
feeling is quite common in identity representations of 'being a teacher'. On the other
hand, the periphery reveals a shielding system in which it reinforces the helping
character and zeal in assisting students with special needs.
Another high point of this research is the intersectoriality of the resource room
envisioned only by a small group of teachers and which should be widely
disseminated in teachers' meetings, parents' meetings and effectively appear in the
Political Pedagogical Project of the schools.
The reflections carried out about the possible social representations made it possible
to understand that there is an understanding of the research teachers in terms of
space and specialized educational assistance. However, it is urgent to incorporate
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this space into the school culture and articulate it with sectors beyond the school
wall.
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