%0 Journal Article %T Imagin¨¢rio coletivo de professores sobre o adolescente contemporaneo %A Montezi %A Aline Vilarinho %A Zia %A Katia Panfiete %A Tachibana %A Miriam %A Aiello-Vaisberg %A Tania Maria Jos¨¦ %J Psicologia em Estudo %D 2011 %I Universidade Estadual de Maring¨¢ %R 10.1590/S1413-73722011000200013 %X understanding that teachers may perform a very important role in the personnel maturing process of their students, we have established to investigate the teacher¡¯s collective imaginary on contemporary adolescents as subject of research. we performed a group interview with six secondary education teachers, utilizing the thematic story-drawing procedure, which as conceived as a dialogical-mediator resource. after the interview, psychoanalytic narratives were written down by us, with the purpose to relate the clinical practice happenings. and those, along with the story-drawings, were psychoanalytically analyzed allowing the interpretative capturing of the following affective-emotional sense fields: ¡°vegetative world¡±, ¡°separating the chaff of the wheat¡± and ¡°happy children, unfortunate adolescent¡±. we conclude that, in the group approached, the adolescent is conceived as passive, unfortunate and unable to make choices, demanding to be guided in his life. %K teacher %K adolescence %K collective imaginary. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1413-73722011000200013&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en