Percepções e indicações de estudantes acerca da sociologia no ensino médio

Abstract

This article aims to present some perceptions and indications of the students about Sociology in High School, taking into account the importance of their participation in the educational process, in order to contribute to the discussion on this topic and enable a reflection to teachers regarding their practice. For this, in 2019, an exploratory research of qualitative character was carried out, carried out with nine students of the third year of High School, from the State School Professora Irene Garrido, located in Maceió - Alagoas. The instrument used to obtain data was: semi-structured interviews, done individually through WhatsApp and the theoretical basis included Freire (1996), which brought indispensable reflections for teaching practice and for education in general, Rêses (2004) and Cykman et.al (2018), who in their work they brought perspectives of students about Sociology. As a conclusion, it can be said that most of the students see the importance of the subject, understand, in a way, its function, feel heard by the teachers and recommend teaching resources very present in works that address the theme.