Perceptions of children: low academic performance, school and family

• Main Author: Moreira-Malagolli, Gabriela Maffei
• Publication Date: 2017
• Other Authors: Marcondes, Keila Hellen Barbato, Giraldi, Luciana Ponce Bellido
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Doxa - Revista Brasileira de Psicologia e Educação (Araraquara. Online)
• Download full: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/doxa/article/view/10828
• topic: Childhood. Low school performance. Elementary school.; Infância. Baixo desempenho escolar. Ensino Fundamental.

Seizing children's perceptions is a challenge for family members, teachers and researchers. Aware of this, this article was the result of three researches developed in the years 2006 and 2010 and aims to appropriate discourses of children / students of the 4th grade / 5th year of Elementary School to understand how they conceived and experienced situations of low performance School. From the Bioecological Perspective of Human Development, semi-structured interviews with children were organized. The results showed that the children who participated in the three studies understood the family as a point of support, support and affection. They recognized the figure of the teacher, highlighting the affective relationship they had with her. In addition, they also revealed feeling guilty about their learning difficulties, expressing anguish and sadness. Attention must be paid to the child's educational trajectory in order to prevent the child from reaching the 5th grade with lags or even to acquire the idea that the course of schooling is painful.