Teaching of the standard language as recognition of the legitimacy of work and pedagogical action

Abstract

This paper brings the fact that the teacher, in his speech in the classroom, exercises pedagogical authority in a particular pedagogical action as, for example, teaching the standard language. The teaching of normative grammar has become a “myth” in school institutions. Pierre Bourdieu discusses the legitimacy of the pedagogical action, in partnership with Passeron, in the reproduction work. In another work, The Economics of Language Exchange, it deals with the relations of communication made through these exchanges, affirming that they are relations of symbolic power. These two works were chosen to that a discussion is made about the teaching of the cultured norm of the language in the schools, as a form of legitimate imposition of a homogeneous formation. It is intended to present how the set of agents of the educational field is consciously or unconsciously subordinated to the imposing forces of the dominant cultural arbitrary, driven by common or individual interests, such as success in examinations, in relation to the domain or not of that language.