Para além da dogmática: a imaginação narrativa no ensino jurídico

Abstract

The present research begins with a critical account of Brazilian legal education, devoted primarily to official State language, lack of reflexiveness, encyclopaedic and far from any imagination of empathy. In this context, innovative initiatives that break this paradigm deserve to be researched, such as the focus of this dissertation, the discipline Institutions of Law taught at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, which adopts a pedagogical method, which encompasses movies and an online platform. The research question is whether Institutions of Law, as it has been conceived and organized, may contribute to the development of the student in the acquisition of juridical skills beyond the exclusive dogmatic analysis. Using Martha C. Nussbaum concept of cultivating humanity as theoretical reference, empirical-qualitative research was implemented, taking two movies presented during the classes (Grande Sertão: Veredas and Lord of the flies) as well as the collaborative texts elaborated by the students as units of analysis, so as to verify if this method has been effective in fostering the capacities Nussbaum describes, especially the narrative imagination. The data and the qualitative analysis indicate that those innovations have been successful in developing those capacities, especially an increased civic and empathic perception.