Disciplinamento e resistência dos corpos e dos saberes: um estudo sobre a educação matemática da Escola Estadual Técnica Agrícola Guaporé

Abstract

This thesis is the result of a research study whose main objective was to discuss the disciplinary processes and resistance movements produced at Escola Estadual Tecnica Agricola Guaporé (Guaporé Technical State School for Agriculture) in the municipality of Guaporé, state of Rio Grande do Sul, focusing on the school curriculum, especially as regards mathematics education. The theoretical contributions that support the investigation are theorizations in the field of Ethnomathematics, conceived with Post-structuralist theorizations, especially those connected to the thinking of Michel Foucault, and with the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein in his work Philosophical Investigations. The data consists of: school documents; notebooks and Mathematics tests; texts printed and used in class by the mathematics teacher written materials produced by students in the technical disciplines; notes made while observing technical discipline classes; interviews (taped and later transcribed) done with three teachers, one student an