O Colégio de Aplicação-CAP/COLUNI da Universidade Federal de Viçosa: histórias de sucesso (memórias e identidade)

Abstract

This study investigates both the institutional history and the stories told by the students of the Application High-School – CAP/COLUNI of the Federal University of Viçosa, State of Minas Gerais. The main objective is to have an understanding of how a ‘group memory’ of success stories about this high-school was constructed. From individual memories of students and teachers it aimed to understand how this speech is produced, materialized and kept up dated and then becoming a tradition. This creates a feeling of belonging to the social characters involved in this institution. The methodological issue was the Oral History, written source from archives and bibliography. Through interviews, narratives, statements and images, this study try to grasp how this group felling of belonging, shows a particular identity of this school. This happened mainly because of the daily school practice. As a theoretical support to analyze the meaning of school tradition in this institution concept used was the ‘invented tradition’, which was developed by HOBSBAWM. In order to understand the meaning of the idea of successes inside the CAP/COLUNI’S former students memory, it was issued the notion of ‘habitus’ inquirement found in BOURDIEU, LAHIRE and CHARLOT which helped in the explanation of the teenagers relationship with the knowledge of the school implications.