BETWEEN LEARNING AND TEACHING:
An autoethnography of a white researcher who chooses to give up privileges to listen to the strengths of women who support the school and life in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
Empowerment in the periphery; violence against Black women; anti-racist education; territory.
This research aims to break with the constant narratives and stories of pain, subalternity, and misery imposed on Black and poor people, presenting powerful and hopeful trajectories that encourage, day after day, a shift in focus regarding their possibilities and realities. Its main objective is to investigate, through autoethnography, how certain public schools in the city of Rio de Janeiro have (or have not) recognized and valued the power and resistance developed, forged, and emanated by peripheral women – mothers, sisters, grandmothers of the children/students – against the multiple forms of violence they experience daily, and to examine how they have responded to the impacts of these experiences on childhood and within these institutions, through daily practices. It will address the various types of violence suffered by these women and how they impact childhood and daily school life, exploring the possible conceptions and actions of these institutions, in order to understand their limitations and possibilities in the endeavor to transform this history. The autoethnographic methodology was chosen because it allows for the connection of the author's narratives, based on listening to and living with a great diversity of people from marginalized communities, with new narratives and theories that permeate academia.