Práticas escolares como táticas criadoras: os praticantes nas tessituras de currículos

Abstract

Through narratives of daily practices of four women teachers (three Brazilian and one French), together with narratives developed around a set of student images, this research aims to reflect on how teachers and students produce curricula in their day-to-day school experiences. Through different uses of available materials, questions raised, life stories, and innumerable experiences that constitute their subjectivities, school practitioners weave, in networks, their knowledges and their meanings for life. Problematizing this theme with the art teacher Cristiane Costa, I seek to develop a methodological discussion on studies of daily life, trying to understand some possibilities of the daily learning-teaching tactics. With mathematics teacher Luciana Getirana, together with the narrative from student Maria Nunes, I analyze the relations between scientific knowledges and daily knowledges. Later, with Portuguese-language teacher Cristiane Souza, I discuss teachers demands for a formula, a cake recipe, which would contain some solutions for the problems of education. With history and geography teacher Laure Cambos, I try to reflect on the teacher, crossing the frontiers between cultures and knowledges. To this extent, I chose two practices of cultural mediation that are present in the daily life of this teacher: the first one is the use of images as a learning-teaching practice, and the second are the out-of-school activities (the walking classes). Finally, I put together photographs of students to develop two themes that interweave the previous chapters: the inside/outside of schools and world experiments. Based on narratives about those images, I seek to reflect on the daily lives of students in their learning-teaching practices. Understanding these networked curricula enables us to call into question notions that do not recognize the fragility of frontiers because they perceive daily life through dichotomous relations. Those frontiers are inhabited by teachers, who produce possibilities of mediation among different cultures and knowledges. As cross-border practices, the learning-teaching practices seek alternatives for the dichotomy separating the inside and the outside of school, daily life knowledges and scientific knowledges, as well as prescribed curricula and experienced curricula. The research sought theoretical support in authors such as Nilda Alves, Michel de Certeau, Henri Lefebvre, Boaventura Santos, Nèstor Canclini, among others.