O imaginário como mística do ensino em Sociologia: sobre a

Abstract

This Master s thesis, which was developed in the Post-graduate Program in Education (FAE) at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas, in Pelotas, RS, Brazil, in the line of research named Written Culture: Languages and Learning, deals with the construction of new educative experiences in Sociology teaching based on some aspects of the cultural tradition in Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil. Studies carried out by the Research Group on the Imaginary, Education and Memory (GEPIEM) and theoretical references in the field of the imaginary, such as Gaston Bachelard s poetic phenomenology, Gilbert Durand s science of the man and tradition and Michel Maffesoli s Sociology of Everyday Life, have provided the basis for this research. This investigation aims at identifying how Sociology teaching can contribute to the process of (re)enthrallment with the world and Education. Therefore, I have used (self)development practices in immersive experiences - similar to teaching mysticism which take into account imaginative attention (Gaston Bachelard) in the production of visual narratives (photos) collected in Bagé. The study has been carried out in three methodological steps: estrangement, embedment and convergence. In the first stage, I have reflected upon the images of personal experiences that have led me to the theme of this research, i. e., I have shown symbolic and imaginary representations which have encouraged my task as a teacher-researcher and as a dweller in Bagé. In the second part, I have shown the construction of an educational project called Narradores de Bagé aimed at students who go to IFSul Campus Bagé; students have been stimulated to dive into the city s everyday life while they focus on themes and spaces of popular and ancestral culture found in traditional communities. The community that was chosen for the visual narratives which were constructed by me and by the students was the one in the Rincão do Inferno, located in the Quilombo de Palmas (Bagé, RS). Finally, the third methodological stage has represented the confluence of the previous steps towards the synthesis of the study in which the teacher-researcher puts into practice his/her own imaginative attention and the one found in his/her teaching, thus, believing in the fictionalization of Education and research itself towards world reenchantment. With the help of the phenomenological method, influenced by Gaston Bachelard, I have gotten symbolic cores which summarize the most common themes of every methodological step: Return, Rooting, Lasso and Tradition. Results have shown the importance of visual narratives and imaginative attention in the construction of mysticism in Sociology teaching, in agreement with the elements of world enchantment: rooting in time and surrounding space remythicalization, the power of rituals and spells , the intuition of the moment, everyday activities, community bonds, sharing moments, original enthusiasm and romanticism of ideas. Imaginative attention, which was awaken by the use of visual narratives, represented the bonds that students and the teacher-researcher constructed with the spaces in Bagé s tradition, thus, helping them to exercise Sociology of poetic imagination. On one hand, imaginative attention mitigated logical, rationalized and utilitarian elements in Sociology teaching. On the other hand, it enhanced ludic, indirect, oneiric and spontaneous aspects which are also indispensable for knowledge construction.