Full-time school

meanings for students of elementary education using educational pair drawing

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the meanings of full-time education program for children using the Educational Pair Drawing. The proposal of full-time education is to offer cultural and sporting activities as well as activities to expand the scholar curriculum, supposedly in situations that could improve quality of teaching and training. Throughout the graphical technique of educational pair drawing were evaluated designs of three students aged 10 and 11 years old, with and without learning disabilities, of public schools in a municipality of Sao Paulo. Students were asked to draw a situation of learning in workshops offered in extra-curricular shifts and another situation of learning in-school. Conflict indicators related to learning were chosen as evaluation criteria of the drawings. The results suggest higher incidence of conflict indicators in both students with learning disabilities, compared to the one without difficulty, in every kind of situation. However, comparing the drawings about learning situations of extra-curricular workshops with those related to learning situation in-school, no significant result could be found. Even though the sampling was considerable small, we assume that the Educational Pair Drawing is a good technique for evaluating the relationship to learning, even though further studies will be necessary to validate the criteria for its interpretation. Considering experiencing situations of learning in after-school workshops, there is a need for future studies in order to evaluate the impact of these programs on the education of children in public schools.