School vulnerability as a myth: challenges for teaching work in environments of social exclusion

Abstract

The existence of a deficit conceptualization of social vulnerability in the discourses of teachers, forces to introduce perspectives of social justice in the policies and programs of initial teacher training. Through an ethnographic study of cases with 18 teachers graduated from three training programs of the same university, the article examines teaching dispositions regarding the presence of socioeconomic diversity in the school. The discussions aim to recognize areas of curricular renewal of initial training that, through action research and recognition funds of knowledge of students and their families, contribute to a questioning of the belief systems of future teachers, increase family-school continuities and allow, in the end, the development of culturally responsible pedagogical practices aligned with the principles of an education for social justice.