As histórias de autoria que vivemos nas aulas de inglês do sexto ano na escola pública

Abstract

In this narrative inquiry (CLANDININ; CONNELLY, 2000, 2011, 2015; CLANDININ, 2013), I narratively inquired into the experiences of authorship of the students I lived alongside in our English classes at a public school in Uberlândia - MG. Narrative inquiry considers the narrative commonplaces of temporality, sociality, and place as part of the three-dimensional inquiry space, a research space shaped in the relationships of the participants and the researcher. This methodology is based on a Deweyan ontology of experience. The grade six students Everton, Kamilly Vitória, Lowise, and Manoela, and Larissa (Lowise's mother), tell how they lived their experiences of authorship at school, and I tell my experiences of authoring my practice and the development of my signature as a teacher. Among the contributions to the area of Applied Linguistics, I consider, mainly, the discussions about the writing process in English, about the process of elaboration and creation of materials by language teachers, about the forms of assessment in English classes in public schools, and the possibilities of working with genres to teach and learn English. After inquiring into the stories we lived and told, I retold them and understood that the experiences of authorship that Everton, Kamilly Vitória, Manoela, Lowise, Larissa, and I lived were possible because we shared authority (OYLER, 1996) in English classes. The findings for this research are as follows: (1) We had narrative authority (OLSON, 1995) to live stories of freedom, singularity, responsibility and protagonism, always considering the ethicalrelational aspect of narrative inquiry (CLANDININ, 2013). (2) We become authors when we leave our signature (MELLO, 2012a, CLANDININ, CONNELLY, 2000, 2011, 2015) on the professional knowledge landscape of schools, expressing our personal practical knowledge (CLANDININ, CONNELLY, 1995). (3) We did this through the stories we told and texts we produced in English classes, built in and by the experiences lived in the knowledge communities (CRAIG, 1995; OLSON, CRAIG, 2001, 2002) we created.