SCHOOL FUNCTIONS, CONCEPTIONS OF PARENTS, TEACHERS AND STUDENTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

The present article intends to systemize the results of an inquiry whose main intention were to present a comparative analysis of the conceptions of parents, professors and pupils, on the functions of the school, the education and education at 1st grade of Teaching Basic looking to perceive the degree of (in) congruence between them. The groups under analysis, pupils (N=60), parents (N=60) and professors (N=60), had been observed in the dimensions Functions of the school, parental Involvement in the questions of the school, Communication family-school and Prolongation of the schedule, having themselves used, as instrument of retraction of data, the narratives, for interview and written production. The data had been read, basically through the analysis of content and of the analysis of multiple correspondences -procedure HOMALS. Through this procedure, the profiles of the three samples and the correspondences between the same ones had been analyzed. The joined profiles suggest one high degree of congruence between the analyzed dimensions.