Interpretation of educational statistics: the space of symbolical disputes

Authors

  • Natália Gil Author

Keywords:

Educational Statistics, Educational Speech, Symbolical Power, Drop-Out, Repetition

Abstract

Starting from the analisys of some exemplary texts related to some concurrent means, from which the interpretation of Brazilian educational statistics were produced in the beginning of the 1940’s, we sought to explicitly express that the understanding of the quantitative information is not an objective consequence of the existence of accurate and correct data. It is rather the object of the symbolical dispute among the professionals involved in the production, analisys and divulgation of the referred information aiming to impose a legitimate interpretation of these data.

 

Author Biography

  • Natália Gil
    Mestre em educação e doutoranda em educação pela Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo (FEUSP).

Published

2012-02-09

Issue

Section

Original research

How to Cite

Interpretation of educational statistics: the space of symbolical disputes. (2012). Revista Brasileira De História Da Educação, 7(1 [13]), 121-151. https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/rbhe/article/view/38620