Text and context: methodological issues in Education and Communication Research

Authors

  • Admilson de Souza Soares

Keywords:

Hermeneutics, public school, Estado de Minas (Brazilian newspaper), Brazil, press reports, news story, press, 1930 Revolution in Brazil.

Abstract

The article covers methodological issues involving the interpretation of press reports(news) regarding the public school, published by the newspaper “Estado de Minas” between 1930 and 1934. It has been determined that the dialectical reciprocity between the wording of the press reports and the context of its production and news conveyance should be taken into account. For this, the article proposes a hermeneutics of the press reports, starting with a reconstruing of the “1930 Revolution” in Brazil as a passive revolution, a concept devised by Antonio Gramsci to describe capitalistic modernization processes carried out from above, with controlled popular participation, watched and directed by the dominant elites. The newspaper and the school act, within this context, as a space for ideological disputes between different social groups aiming at taking control of political and cultural hegemony. Press reports. regarding the public school, published by the newspaper, express in a lively and contradictory manner the changes of a country just starting its first steps towards social and political democracy.

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Published

2011-09-28

How to Cite

Soares, A. de S. (2011). Text and context: methodological issues in Education and Communication Research. Education, 30(1), 71–88. Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufsm.br/reveducacao/article/view/3777

Issue

educação v. 30, n. 1, jan./jun. 2005

Section

Continuous Demand

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