Entre arquivos e relatos: o laboratório de ensino de matemática do Instituto de Matemática e Estatística da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia enquanto território vivo de formação

Abstract

This work aims to perform a historiographical exercise on a possible movement of constitution of the Mathematics Teaching Laboratory (LEM) of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the Federal University of Uberlândia (IME/UFU). It is based on the understanding that the constitution of a teaching laboratory does not occur in a linear or homogeneous way, but as a historical process marked by collective actions, institutional disputes, educational policies and different conceptions of teacher training. The research is based on the perspective of Oral History, as developed by the Oral History and Mathematics Education Group (GHOEM), and dialogues with historiographical assumptions that understand History as a situated and interpretative narrative. Methodologically, interviews were conducted with professors who participated, at different times, in the trajectory of the LEM, in addition to the analysis of institutional documents, minutes and records located in the UFU Archive of Dead. The interviews were transcribed and textualized, assuming the interpretative character of this process. The analysis of the narratives and documents allowed us to understand that the LEM was constituted as a space in permanent (re)configuration, crossed by different pedagogical conceptions, by moments of institutional strengthening and fragility, and by extension initiatives, initial and continuing training of teachers. It is concluded that the LEM/IME/UFU cannot be understood only as a physical space or storage of materials, but as a formative and political environment, whose history reveals movements of resistance, reinvention and commitment to teacher training in Mathematics.