ETHNOGRAPHY AND ITS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RESEARCH IN THE TEACHING CONTEXT OF THE PEDAGOGY OF ALTERNATION

ABSTRACT In this paper, we analyse the ethnography contributions to the development of a research in a school named Escola Família Agrícola (EFA). As it is an ethnographic research, we have been adopted the qualitative and interpretative approach in data analysis, because the study focus are the literacy practices and events mediated by the pedagogical tools of the Pedagogy of Alternation. The data were generated in 2014 and consist of: audio-visual material, field notes, school documents, photographs and texts of (16) the genre Notebook of Reality. Considering the didactic-pedagogical proposal of the teaching context of the Pedagogy of Alternation had assumed by the school and the teachers' work, the research results have revealed that the students training makes it possible to develop language skills from the social uses of writing at school and in the community.