INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEWS

SECTION 1: GENERAL PRESENTATION OF THE SCHOOL AND NEIGHBORHOOD

1-1) How would you describe the school?

1-2) What are the main problems in the school?

1-3) How are children’s behavioral problems managed in the school?

1-4) What are the main school resources, its assets?

1-5) What are the main resources of the families, their assets?

1-6) How is the relation between parents and families?

1-7) What are the main resources of the neighbor, its assets?

1-8) How is the relationship between the school organization (like the church and the community
library) and the school?

1-9) What do you know about the museum (acervo dala je) and how important it is to sustain
child’s education?

1-10) How is the relationship between the school organization (like the church and the
community library) and the families?

1-11) Do you think that sustaining child’s citizenship is part of the school mission, and why?

1-12) How a partnership between the school, the families, and the community can help
support children’s citizenship?
SECTION 2: THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY: LOCATING THE ISSUES AND RESOURCES

2-1) What are the places in the neighborhood that are negative for children and families, and
why?

2-2) What are the places in the neighborhood that are positive for children and families, and
why?

2-3) What do you think of the children playing on the streets after school?

2-4) Are the streets important for the families? Why?

2-5) What is the sense ascribed to Rio Mane Dedé by the citizens (including the children and
their parents)?

2-6) What sense is ascribed to the church by the families? What role does it have on families’
values, how parents conceive their role as educators and on families’ quotidian activities?

2-7) What sense is ascribed to the church by the school? What role does it have on children’s
learning and development?

2-8) What do you know about PET - Criança em família - Associacao família e escola and how
important it is for the school and the families?

2-9) It seems that mothers often bring the child to school by walking with them (from home to
school). How important is this practice important for you and why?

SECTION 3: INNOVATIONS IN THE LAST 5 YEARS AND PROJECTION FOR THE FUTURE

3-1) How did the school adapts(change, improve, modify) its practices (academic activities,
relation with parents and community…) in the last five years to meet some challenges?
3-2) Why did the school has to adapt its practices and what is the impact of this adaptation?

3-3) What are the main challenges for the near future?

3-4) How does the school have to still improve its practices to meet these challenges?

3-5) What are the schools’ need to meet these challenges?

3-6) Elaborate on how families and communities also have to make some adjustments to meet
these challenges.

Do you have anything else to add?

***In February and march, we will do mapping activities with children. They will be invited to
identify the places in their neighbourhood that is significative for them, in order to further
understand the community’s resources and sustain child’s citizenship. It will be a fun activity,
followed by a discussion. Parents, community members and school actors (teachers, directors)
will be invited. Are you willing to participate?