In the light of the lamp and the construct of the ‘i’ source: education through art, science and politics

Abstract

This thesis of an autobiographical nature attempts to answer the following question: What is my perception of my life trajectory from the initial grades to the University, the artistic, academic-scientific field and the political dispositions that ensued between 1975-2020? Therefore, autobiographical temporality corresponds to the beginning of the schooling process at a public institution, Municipal School of 1st Degree Marechal Arthur da Costa Silva, in the city of Jaboatão dos Guararapes/PE, as well as the closing of a political cycle experienced at the Federal University of Pernambuco - UFPE - and the ritual process of moving to the highest stage in the magitery career in Brazil, Full Professor, central motivation of this study. The trajectory is demarcated by fields involving education, art, the academic environment, science and politics, whose hypothesis concerns my transmigration from the artistic field to the academic-scientific one. To confirm the hypothesis, three objectives were estabilished: 1) contribute to the debate about the (auto) biographical method as an investigation tool and its impact on discursive memorials; 2) build and analyze self-narrative focusing on actions that went through my school, artistic, scientific and political environment and 3) survey and analyze different types of sources that show my change in trajectory and immersion in scientific activities and participation in institutional policy. Considering the (auto)biographical method, at different times, I recorded 5h20 (five hours and twenty minutes) of audio using a script I had previously established, and used the interview I had previously given to the Oral History and Image Laboratory - Lahoi/UFPE -, in 2009, with an approximate time of 2h14min. In addition to this, I brought for analysis a documentary and iconographic mass of the personal archive and of different institutional collections - schools, Universities, CNPq platform/curriculum Lattes-, blogs and online newspapers -, as well as my academic production: books, book chapters, articles in scientific journals and congress proceedings. The analysis was carried out from the conceptual frameworks configuration, sublimation, production field, habitus, individualization, outsider, strategy and tactic, objectification and subjectivation, which corroborated with the self-narrative, the result of which is the constructive diagram of the ‘I’ source developed by through the scientific language in transmigration that I managed to accomplish in the itinerary between school, art and academic life.