Resumo:
The objective of this work was to analyze the meanings that the term everyday
assumes in the research presented at ENPEC, based on Agnes Heller's vision of
everyday life. We analyzed 75 articles published in all editions of ENPEC that dealt
with research that made use of everyday activities in basic education written in
Portuguese and classified the meanings assumed by the term everyday into 4
categories, namely: Habituality; Prior Knowledge; Contextualization and Reality,
which we divided, based on Agnes Heller's theoretical framework, into 2 large
groups: Daily life as non-conscious generic human activity and Daily life as conscious
generic human activity. The results showed that most of the research presented at
the events present excerpts that have meanings linked to the Habituality category
and that the same researcher uses the term everyday with different meanings, since
we noticed that the same work could contain excerpts in all categories. The research
showed us that there is a need to deepen the understanding of what is everyday,
since it is much more complex than one imagines, to use it in science teaching, since
using it in a wrong way, there is a risk of restrict learning to something that is
commonplace and that does not need further understanding to be accomplished or
understood.
