Histórias de trabalhadores técnico-administrativos em educação da Faculdade de Educação da UFMG: memórias de um trabalho que falam de saberes, agruras e resistências

Abstract

This is a research project about work and life stories, focusing on the memories of retired Technical-Administrative Education Servers from the Faculty of Education at UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais). It is a qualitative, narrative research conducted in the fields of life history and oral history, centered around work memories. The aim was to conduct an investigative study to understand the memories shared by the workers themselves as a strategy for recognition and professional valorization. As research subjects, we selected nine retired Technical-Administrative Education Servers from the Faculty of Education who had worked during the decades of the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s. Individual oral accounts were collected through in-depth interviews, recorded in audio format, and subsequently transcribed. The research was structured into five successive and complementary stages: theoretical deepening of the topic, data collection and production, data analysis, dissertation writing, and the development of an educational resource. Theoretical references for this study included authors such as Ecléa Bosi and Maurice Halbwachs, among others, who discuss the concepts of memory and experience. These authors helped us perceive work memories as a complex, unfinished heritage of each worker, permeated by experiences and knowledge. The stories collected in this research provided insights into what it means to be a Technical-Administrative Education Server from the perspective of those who have been in that role. Through the retirees' memories, we encountered their recollections of their journey as Technical-Administrative Education Servers: their past colleagues and supervisors, the spaces of the Faculty and University with their distinctive smells and sounds, the various ways of working, their challenges, and their resilience. The study sought to understand the significance of these memories and their importance in the experiences of the individuals, their work category, and the Faculty. Additionally, it aimed to demonstrate the passage of these workers through the Institution they helped build with their work and a part of their lives.