ABSTRACT:
This paper is about social, cognitive and institutional aspects related to the problem of the mismatch between the academic trajectory, teaching knowledge and pedagogic mediations in Social Sciences expressed in the teaching practice of teachers and bachelors in Sociology working in public and private schools from the Brazilian Federal District. Based on questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and documental analysis, we reached a typology of representations of teaching practices in Social Sciences, which can be categorized in: institutionalized, disconnected andpropositional. We can conclude that both challenges and perspectives to the subject Sociology in the high school form of Brazilian Federal District involves, necessarily, the balance between the transmission of academic contents adapted to the social and cognitive profile of the students and the academic and teaching knowledge of the teachers whowork in diverse and adverse scholar contexts.
Keywords:
Academic trajectory; Teaching knowledge and pedagogic mediations; TeachingofSociology; Schools in Federal District