Tipos e propriedades da atenção: subsídios teóricos para a organização do ensino

In the educational environment, complaints about students' lack of attention during classes are recurrent. Although it is highly demanded by teachers, attention is not well known in its functioning. Given the importance of this psychological function in the learning process, this theoretical study aimed to gather propositions from the Historical-Cultural Theory regarding attention. For this purpose, theoretical contributions were sought from the works of classical authors in this psychological approach (Luria, 1979; Smirnov and Gonobolin, 1960; , Petrovski, 1980 and Rubinstein, 1978) as well as Brazilian authors dedicated to studying this psychological function. In the article, the types of attention are differentiated (voluntary or involuntary) and their properties are highlighted (tenacity, intensity, stability, surveillance, distribution and switching). It is concluded that the knowledge about the types of attention makes it possible to identify teaching situations that may hinder or favor students' attention to the object of study.