Schools with multi-graded classes in the municipality of Santa Maria de Jetibá-ES: memories on photographic mediation

• Main Authors: Juber Helena Baldotto Delboni, Gerda Margit Schütz Foerste
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Tocantins 2018-11-01
• Series: Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo
• Subjects: School Multi-Graded; Memory; Photographic Image; Mediation
• Online Access: https://sistemas.uft.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/campo/article/view/5176/14427

This study aims to understand the processes of formation of multi-graded schools and the directions that they are given by the communities in the country side. The search in photo collections of former teachers and families of these communities, the memories of the subjects that make local history (Halbwachs, 2006; Le Goff, 1992; Pollak, 1989, 1992). They revisit the field imagery production and deepen the analysis of photography as a historical source. At the same time, searching the materiality of the photographs, as mediation (Ciavatta, 2002, 2008, 2009), the particularities of the subjects in context, to produce the story. With this consideration, it is proposed to place the debate beyond the misconception that multi-graded schools are delayed or spaces of "anomaly" in the educational system. But on the other hand, they are living spaces of production of life, dialogue with cultures and knowledge of family farmers in the countryside.