Teacher
Suzana Lopes Salgado Ribeiro
Project title
Education and Diversity: identities and narratives in the making of history
oral
objectives
• Produce works and reflections on oral history, narratives and memory.
• Reflect on issues related to diversity (and identity) at school.
• Knowing how public education and memory policies are constructed.
The study of aspects of Basic Education and identity through the recording of narratives with the support of the oral history methodology is the focus on which the concerns of this guideline are concentrated. Such themes will be addressed in studies on the perspective of diversity – of gender, of the deficiencies, of ethnicities and sexuality in school inclusion.
Theoretical foundations
The studies are based on the area of Cultural Studies and theories of diversity. They are, therefore, references the works: Hall, Bauman, Castells (Identity), Butler, blonde, padlock (diversity), Sarlo, Huyssen (memory and
narrative).
Methodology
The works in general will be developed with records of oral history interviews. The option for the methodology was based on the perspective that qualitative research allows a universe of possibilities and interpretations of what is said and what is not said., or why a certain experience is made explicit or hidden among the possibilities and variables, exploring the subjectivities contained in the speech, between the lines and in the silence of the subjects.
It is understood that:
Oral history is a set of procedures that begins with the elaboration of a project and continues with the definition of a group of people to be interviewed.. Full oral history exercises analysis by making interviews dialogue. […] as analises, in these cases, must always be comparative, mixing opinions, views or facts revealed in recordings
that contain networks of interviewees with their own characteristics (MEIHY and RIBEIRO, 2011).
Oral history is therefore a way of having contact and recording the experience of different subjects., wrapped in their particularities, subjectivities, fantasies and realities.
According to Thompson (1992), oral history can change the focus of history itself and reveal new fields of investigation. Therefore, we are committed to the development of research in this field..
Suggestions of themes related to the project that can be developed
• Diversity at school: research that demonstrates concern to develop research that has gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality, country-city relations and generation as a cut.
• Identity: research that focuses on the study of topics such as communities, affirmative rights, educational practices and democratic education (or inclusive).
• Oral history and narrative: Researches that methodologically reflect on the recording of memories, narratives, of life stories, autobiographies and storytelling.
• Memory: studies that make audio or audiovisual recordings and produce written or edited audiovisual documentation of the interviews that result from the research process.
• Memory and heritage: in order to relate memory studies with those of identity, we are interested in research that aims to reflect on the patrimonialization of material or immaterial goods and education. Such studies may include reflections and evaluations of public policies related to education and patrimonialization, as well as its implications for the social context.
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