Abstract

RIBEIRO, Fernanda Siqueira  and  CRUZ, Fatima Maria Leite. Children, school contexts, and their social representations of family. Psicol. educ. [online]. 2016, n.43, pp. 81-90. ISSN 1414-6975.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/2175-3520.20160008.

This article presents the results of a survey aimed at understanding social representations of family by children children from a public and a private school in the city of Recife. The plural dynamics of family approach validates the choice of a psychosocial theoretical framework, as the Theory of Social Representations, through which shared meanings were identified, with addition to specificities of local contexts, and particularly of groups. 12 children, both genders, aged between 9-10 years old participated; two focal groups were formed, with six participants from each school. The results, according to the content analysis, show that children experience transitions, dilemmas and contradictions in family contexts: the public school group characterized the idealized family and pointed its acquaintance with various family setting designs; the private school group showed the difficulty they experience in accepting their parents possible separation; they shared those experiences and introduced friends and pets as family members.

Keywords : social representations; family; children; focal group.

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