Dos nós aos NÓS: seguindo os efeitos da autogestão em uma escola Waldorf em rede

Abstract

This research aimed to follow self-management practices at a Waldorf school in Rio de Janeiro and the effects of its network bonds, like the nodes that make up the collective us. In 2017, it participated in an institutional development consultancy, working with its developments in community life in the following years. In 2020, the research returned remotely, following the self-management of the challenges that emerged with the waves of the Covid-19 pandemic and erupted as a health, economic, ecological, political and social crisis. The work was undertaken in the sailor’s way of weaving nets with knots, as bonds, in the way of research by navigating that is characteristic of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT), in the strains and supports of an educating network that, collectively, crossed tides, resisted storms and faced some moving issues. What can each stakeholder learn in this binding and unbinding of us? When do the links allow the network’s rotation and when do they stabilize it? What are the strains present in the tying of us whilst controversies? Which links does the network want to unfasten? The research accompanied the collective learning through ethical-political practice and sociocracy, exercising the ability to sustain dialogue, include all voices and refine differences in dissent. It followed the movements of a crossing woven with economic fraternity, multiplying links that expanded the network, adjusting concepts and understandings of the collective us that supported and were supported by this educational community, creating a collective autonomy. Finally, we realized how a self-management that is done in a threefold way intertwines and activates each link, which can think, feel and act as a network, weaving the health of the social organism.