Apelido pejorativo na escola, um estudo com adolescentes paulistanos

Abstract

The present research aims to study the adolescent view about pejorative nicknames at school. This pejorative nicknames are negative labels that are imposed from the outside to the inside of the student, and this often happens without the adult perception. It happens at the back of the classrooms, during chats in class, during the break time and even between classes changes, in students everyday conversations. The pejorative nicknames given in joke, might be fulfilled with prejudiced and discriminative purposes. The different students, being it physically or due to distinct origins, like the Fat , the Thin , the Tall , the Japanese , the Negro , the baiano and others, are constantly subjects of persecution and jocular acts that humiliate and isolate them at schools. This work was developed with the aim of throwing a look over this kind of relation among adolescents in a public school, in order to provide aids for teachers that are facing the matter of students relationship. The approach adopt for the present study is from a qualitative nature, using the critical incident as a data colleting technique. Three critical incident were applied to relate the case of high school students that had been nicknamed in a public school environment, in the suburb of a city in São Paulo. The theoretical frame that underlined this research belongs to the developmental psychogenetic of Henri Wallon