RELAÇÃO ENTRE A ORGANIZAÇÃO DO ENSINO E O DESENVOLVIMENTO DA ATENÇÃO VOLUNTÁRIA NA PRODUÇÃO ACADÊMICA

Historical and Cultural Theory states that the higher psychic functions, which includes attention, are developed by the appropriation of culture and, consequently, school education has an important role in the process. The statement, however, is insufficient so that teachers develop children´s attention in classroom activities. We would like to ask: Are there productions within academic literature that may subsidize teachers´ work in the execution of a type of teaching that boosts the development of attention? Research has been undertaken in the Catalogue of Dissertations and Theses of the Coordination for the Upgrading of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTG), the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and CAPES´s portal of journals, to investigate the contents of publications on voluntary attention based on the presuppositions of the Historical and Cultural Theory. Current paper forwards an analysis of studies in school education specifically focused on voluntary attention. Results show that the number of researches that employ methodologies which analyze ways which are favorable for the development of voluntary attention within the school context is small. In the wake of the great need of pedagogical methods for lack of attention, investigations that produce knowledge on teaching organization with such capacity should be broadened and intensified.