Entre contações de histórias: vidas miúdas na escola

Abstract

A research that unfolds and emerges from events. Permeating the school, its classrooms, hallways, stairs, courtyards, and the garden. It invades its times, like recess, breaks, and daily routines. Research that comes together with students, teachers, families, and the school community. In this setting, the research asks: what lives take shape in a school? What lives are affirmed in these timeless events that pass through and traverse a school? Questions that lead to various developments, disturbances, and disruptions within machinic productions. Problems emerge in this act of researching: what can a small life do? Can an event, no matter how small, provoke thought? Maria runs through the hallway with her cellphone in hand, playing. Maria cries over a math problem. Pedro runs around a makeshift stage in the courtyard. Maria draws a window and writes: I am trying to stay strong during this pandemic. Events that speak of the school, of life, and provoke writings through experimentation, leaving the researcher and those touched by the tangled forces of life at the crossroads of becoming within a school. Small events produce a succession of meanings and, in the research, are themselves meanings, becoming singular elements for this study. Through them, small lives are affirmed. Playing in school, time in school, the life that unfolds and stirs other places of affection. The school ceases to be a fixed, immovable space and becomes, always, a space that forms with the child, a space of disputes, unstable and provisional relationships. Research intertwined with the processes of life that occur in and with the school, made up of intersections. The writing of this thesis maps these small events with small lives in their creation. In one instance, the events appear unpretentiously, without losing their strength with such a demeanor. At other moments, some elements and objects emerge to compose and extend the force of these lives through various lines. Intertwined with all of this, authors and thinkers emerge in their thought production. Deleuze, Guattari, Segato, Galeano, Kopenawa, Donna J. Haraway, Rotondo, Belcavello, Clareto, and Cammarota pass through the writing. Thus, the act of writing research affirms how much a life can do through experimentations within, with, and through the school.