ABSTRACT:
This text presents results of a study that sought to understand the impact of belonging to the teaching profession in the school life of children through the analysis of educational practices in families where at least one parent is a teacher. Based on a larger study that investigated 40 families in a municipality in Minas Gerais, through the application of semistructured interviews with teacher-parents and their children (N = 80), this article examines a subsample of seven families who sent their children to public schools. Besides enabling the identification of evidence of a teacherparent “effect” on the school life of children, the results indicate that teacher-parents develop a process of “colonization” of the educational setting, making the school “work” for the education of their children, intervening directly in schools to prevent and compensate for the possible consequences of the school belonging to the public system.
Keywords:
Teacher-parents; Family-school relation.