Banca de DEFESA: DANILO PEREIRA DE SOUZA

Narrative Curriculum and Life Stories: building knowledge about living beings in Elementary School

Narrative curriculum, pós-crític perspective and narrative learning

This work was an integral part of a dissertation and aimed to understand how the histories of students in the initial grades - specifically the third year of Elementary School in the public school located in the county of Seropédica, RJ - intertwined the learning of science knowledge about living things. In this research, the object of study was located in the narrative curriculum proposed by Goodson (2008), a post-critical perspective that problematized the prescribed curriculum and highlighted a curriculum constructed from narrative learning and narrative capital. The research was qualitative and was empirical sources textual (whether official or not), oral / narrative and visual resources. In what touched on the textual sources, was used the official institutional history, the texts produced by the class teacher and a questionnaire that aimed to understand the concepts regarding the students that already presented present. Regarding the oral / narrative sources, I used the field diary, the movie "Rio", excerpts from the movie "Babe" and a short video of YouTube, the testimony of the students collected through the collective reflections about the films, I interviewed students at the end of the activities. The concerns expressed in the previous experiences of the students, which were produced in multiple formative spaces of their identity profile, were relevant to this work. When confronted in situations of knowledge construction, the students turned to their diverse spaces of formation, trying to signify their learning. The confrontation and disputes of the space of prescription logic and narration was a factor that led to the understanding that despite the prescriptive logic being established in the reality of the Brazilian Educational model, the movement of the subject in the spaces of contemporary production contexts has been very a pressure for a traffic and / or change of theoretical perspective.