Abstract
The objective of this study was to understand the narratives of the students' relatives about the difficulties in the schooling process. The concepts of meaning, educational self and narrative were used. This is a qualitative study theoretically based on Historical-Cultural Psychology, whose method was narrative analysis. The participants were 10 family members of Elementary School students, in a public school in the State of Bahia. Focus group and individual semi-structured interviews were carried out. The basic analysis procedure consisted of setting up collective narratives from individual contributions that complement each other, supported on the meanings presented by the participants. Understandings and positions about the children’s learning process were identified. The findings allow to distinguish the versions constructed by the student families from those that make up the school complaint. These symbolic constructs indicate modulations of the educational self and the occurrence of problematic communication between the school and the family.
Keywords:
Narratives; family; school