O empoderamento através das narrativas memorialísticas: Ressignifcando a prática escolar

Abstract

The goal of this conclusion paper is to show the empowerment of subjects within the category of memories, through textual productions produced by students from the 7th and 9th grades of Elementary Education, participants in the Olympic project Portuguese Language Writing the Future (OLPEF). In a body of ten narratives a qualitative analysis was done from a pedagogic and theological perspective, of the memory discourse and the power relations which are established in society, mainly in the school environment. The Olympics originated from the Writing the Future program developed by the Fundação Itaú Social [Itaú Social Foundation] between 2002 and 2006. It currently is carried out in a partnership between the Ministry of Education and the Itaú Social Foundation and the Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação, Cultura e Ação Comunitária (Cenpec) [Center of Studies and Research in Education, Culture and Community Action] The study focuses, in the first chapter, on the boundaries between genres of memories, autobiography, fiction and history, orality, as well as their possible intertwinings. In the second chapter, there is a reflection on the power relations and their effects on the individual and collective level. We deal with the hegemonic culture which underlies the educational institutions as well as with the “disciplinarization” of the bodies, the constitution of the spaces, the time, the tiering in the processes of teaching-learning. The third chapter relates memory, forgetting and the (de) construction of identities, reflecting on the historical formation of the subjects and their social representations as well as on the strategies of domination or exclusion; distribution and maintenance of elitist systems.