Fabricação de infâncias na escola em quatro cortejos

Abstract

This study follows the fabrication of childhoods within four entourages that happen in a public school in Juiz de Fora, maintained by the latter one. The entourages make movement and drum the school curriculum, bringing sounds, colors and flavors that create a school and, with it, childhoods. Political pedagogical changes that are always in progress make a certain pedagogy works: the entourages pedagogy. The first entourage of the year is “Boi Bumbá”, which articulates with brazilian popular culture; then, “A Menina da Lanterna” (“The Flashlight Girl”), which is tied to an european tradition; the “Coroação de Reis” (“Kings Coronation”), that comes from an african source; the last one, the “Auto de Natal” (“The Christmas Play”), which comes from a Christian tradition. The entourages are constituted as a tradition in functioning, in action, and they go by a competition that creates the action, bringing the tradition back to its condition of creation, of invention. With this, a fabrication (we could say “fabricACTION”) of traditions and childhoods grows along the school year, a fabrication with effects on the curriculum and its diversity exercise, within its way out of an ideality field. An entourage pedagogy is a field of competitions, impacts, tensions and relationships of power which create childhoods, create school, create comunity... Entourages that profanes the sacred, rip the school time, and unfold themselves into artistic productions and stories that cross over ancestral memories and popular cultures. As a political resistance to colonialism, they play drums and invite children, teachers, employees and families to party along with the community. The child that is entouraged also entourages, tries entourages with the teachers before, during and after the entourages, inside and outside the classroom as well. Entourages that are made among enchantments, emotions, joys, experiences and exchanges from the group of the school that listens to the children and party with them. This thesis is manufactured starting from the weave of the school events, from the research itself. The school is produced amidst the ethnic and racial conditions, religion, community, ritualistic practices and goes questioning the issues that concern the difference. Entourages that place in action, in experimentation (we could say “experimentACTION”), the movements and intensities of a school.