Representações sociais em movimento: uma análise de duas pesquisas no âmbito da Educação do Campo da FaE-UFMG

Abstract

Considering the expansion of the countryside education in the Brazilian scenario and the pioneering role of the Faculdade de Educação of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (FAE-UFMG) in the formation of countryside teachers, the discussion of researches that use the Theory of Social Representations (TSR) in this context becomes of great importance. The construction of an educational project that dialogs with the Social Movements gives clues on how fruitful can be the study of countryside education in light of the TSR. Such fruitfulness can be noticed by the importance of groups and their ideologies in the ways of thinking, feeling and acting of the subjects. In this work, we analyzed a master’s degree research and a doctoral degree research which the joint objective is to study the social representations of artistic practices and the violence in the formation of graduates in countryside education in FAE-UFMG. Our methodology is based on a qualitative-descriptive approach. In the context of countryside education, we analyze the following: (i) the research object in the context, (ii) TSR approach and (iii) methodological procedures for capturing the movements of Social Representations. By analyzing those points, we observed the evolution of the concept of "Social Representation in Movement” from the methodological approach of the researches. This concept of Social Representations in Movement allowed the verification of social representation in subjects that fits on change making contexts. The Theory of Social Representations was adopted as a core reference of the analysis of thinking, feeling and acting of subjects that are pushed for changes in their formative processes.