Travessias do saber: uma jornada acadêmica em acordes críticos memorial

Abstract

This memoir, titled "Travessias do Saber: Uma Jornada Acadêmica em Acordes Críticos," constitutes a Capstone Project that explores the author's academic and formative trajectory, from his childhood in the periphery of São Paulo to his work as a historian, researcher, and teacher. The work reflects on how personal experiences, such as unequal access to cultural capital and early literacy, propose theoretical discussions based on the thought of Paulo Freire, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Sigmund Freud, addressing education, power, and memory. It details the author's university education in History, his research on São Paulo's samba schools and Black movements, highlighting the role of non-formal education, "territories of life," and the "pedagogy of crossroads" in transmitting matriarchal knowledge and fighting historical erasure. The author's teaching practice, in both public and private networks, is analyzed from a Marxist perspective that denounces the commodification of knowledge and the reproduction of social inequalities in education, dialoguing with Karl Marx and Nildo Viana. Psychoanalytic training complements this analysis, enriching the understanding of memory processes and pedagogical practice with an attentive listening to students' subjectivity. The memoir culminates in a reflection on what it means to be a teacher and pedagogue, in light of Paulo Freire and António Nóvoa, advocating for a conscious, transformative, and methodical teaching approach that seeks the comprehensive development of the student and the construction of a more just and democratic society, evidencing the interconnection between the personal, theoretical, and practical dimensions of education.