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Universitas Psychologica
Print version ISSN 1657-9267
Abstract
SAWAYA, SANDRA MARÍA. Information Society, Teaching, and Learning: Education Reforms in Brazil. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2008, vol.7, n.3, pp.869-882. ISSN 1657-9267.
This article examines the subject matter of learning within the context of information society, through an inquiry concerning both the reforms in education adopted in Brazil in the last thirty years and their results. It provides a revision on the explanations of school failure based on assumptions of learning problems due to cognitive and linguistic deficits. From the guidelines related with written school forms as well as the constant cultural oppression accomplished inside the school, the article claims the necessity of changing the psychological and pedagogic views that, under the label of democratic practices, determine school institutions and its daily life, by means of instrumental relations with knowledge that disregard the reading practices which are congenial to popular culture.
Keywords : Information Society; Teach-Learning; Education Reforms; School Failure; Information Society-Brazil; Educational Reform-Brazil; School Failure-Brazil.