Infâncias que (se) falam: memórias de infâncias de moradores do Morro do Alemão e a luta pelo direito à educação

Abstract

The present research sought to discuss the importance of experiences and childhood memories of former residents of the slum of Morro do Alemão-Rio de Janeiro, an area that suffers from violence in a scenario that has been repeated for decades, without the proper care of power Public. More than a century since the emergence of the first slum in the city of Rio de Janeiro, it is still perceived the remnants of invisibility that has deeply wounded it, leaving marks for this abandonment in its residentes. It seems to me that there is still no socio-spatial recognition of the slum in the political and urban setting of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Childhoods memories, stories of another space-time can provide tools that lead the children of this slum to imagine the past and colour the present and the future in their experiences. Memory is a constituent element of personal and collective identity. In this sense, the present research focused on the oral history of some residents who lived their childhoods in Morro do Alemão, popular education, the formative processes based on these narratives and the intergenerational relations involved in this process. Thus, through a field research based on oral interviews I sought to know epistemological tracks and possibilities to think about childhood, child education and the right to education in this slum. I searched for theoretical referential, especially in Conceição Evaristo, Ecléa Bosi, José de Souza Martins, Maria Tereza Goudard Tavares, Michael Pollak, Paulo de Salles Oliveira, Paulo Freire, Pierre Nora e Victor Valla who pointed out ways for the research to proceed and be drawn, these were the steps to deal the childhoods memories of the Morro do Alemão.